Sperm Stem Cells Grown in Laboratory Correct Infertility in Mice
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Scientists have transplanted into infertile mice sperm stem cells grown in a laboratory, thus allowing the mice to reproduce -- an approach that one day might be used to cure infertility in men -- according to a study published in the November issue of
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Sperm are some of the most extraordinary cells of the body, a triumph of efficient packaging, sleek design and superspecialization.
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If a new method works, scientists could derive embryonic stem cells -- without destroying embryos -- from more than 3,000 cells discarded annually at fertility clinics. In Bodyhack.
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A new study shows that embryonic stem cells can heal defective heart cells in mice. It could be a new way to look at the potential healing power of these controversial cells. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Austrian researchers have successfully treated incontinence in women using the patients&#39; own muscle-derived stem cells. The women were suffering stress incontinence, a condition that affects almost
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) -- A defect in a gene that's essential for the formation of functioning sperm cells may cause infertility by preventing the head of sperm from being able to penetrate an egg.
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Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have found a fundamental mechanism used by embryonic stem cells to assure that genetically damaged stem cells do not divide and pass along the damage to daughter stem cells.
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Nov. 4, 2004 -- Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have successfully grown stem cells that make sperm, which could eventually lead to new treatments for male infertility.
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Researchers have cloned healthy mice from skin cells for the first time.
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Microscopic embryonic stem cells might hold the answer to afflictions from baldness, wrinkles, and age spots to the most intractable diseases.
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota Stem Cell Institute are one step closer to understanding how blood cells develop through the use of human embryonic stem cells.
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Scientists say they've created embryonic stem cells by stimulating unfertilized eggs, a significant step toward producing transplant tissue that's genetically matched to women.
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Scientists have discovered a new type of embryonic stem cell in mice and rats that should speed up research into regenerative medicine and help in the hunt for cures to a range of diseases.
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Scientists have discovered a molecule that plays a key role in the development of sperm.
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Researchers report that embryonic stem cells sent molecular signals that repaired fatal genetic damage to heart cells in laboratory mice.
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University of Toronto researchers have identified cells in an adult mouse pancreas capable of generating insulin-producing beta cells.
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U.S. researchers said on Thursday they had found sperm nursery cells in mice, grown them in lab dishes and used them to father baby mice.