These new findings may help in the development of therapeutic strategies both for men with impaired fertility due to the inability to create sperm cells and/or for children with cancer who, following chemotherapy treatments, may lose their fertility in the future.
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev were able to grow, under culture conditions, germ cells from mouse testicular tissue to the stage of a mature sperm cell. The results of this study constitute a significant breakthrough in the field of male fertility. These new findings may help in the development of therapeutic strategies both for men with impaired fertility due to the inability to create sperm cells and/or for children with cancer who, following chemotherapy treatments, may lose their fertility in the future.
The research work was carried out by Prof. Mahmoud Khalichel and his laboratory team, from the Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University, in collaboration with Prof. Eitan Lohnenfeld from Soroka University Medical Center, and Prof. Stephen Schlatt from the University of Münster in Germany. The research findings were published these days in the scientific journal ASIAN JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY.
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Correct the professor's name in the picture... (and you can delete my comment along the way)