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Published online 23 June 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060619-13
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Mature sperm and eggs grown from same stem cells
Technological advance could help infertile people to have children.
Stem cells from a mouse embryo have been coaxed into producing both eggs and sperm in the same dish. The eggs and sperm are the most mature yet grown in the lab, and the advance brings researchers closer to their ultimate aim: producing human eggs and sperm from adult body cells so that infertile men and women can have their own children.
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