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In vitro sperm maturation

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Anticancer therapies can impair male fertility. Whereas men can opt to freeze their sperm before treatment, young boys don't produce mature sperm and so lack this choice. Work in mice offers hope for such patients. See Letter p.504

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Figure 1: Possible scenario for preserving fertility, based on the new work1.

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  1. Marco Seandel is in the Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10065, USA.,

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  2. Shahin Rafii is in the Department of Genetic Medicine and at the Ansary Stem Cell Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10065, USA.,

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Seandel, M., Rafii, S. In vitro sperm maturation. Nature 471, 453–454 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/471453a

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