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Immortalizing the immortal

Despite many attempts to generate them, genuine spermatogonial stem-cell lines have not been available to study the processes of spermatogenesis and meiosis. A new approach may finally have succeeded.

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Cooke, H. Immortalizing the immortal. Nat Genet 32, 90–91 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0902-90

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