Lab-Grown Testicles For Wounded Soldiers

The wonders of science never cease.

An estimated 440 soldiers wounded in Iraq alone sustained injuries that would make it more difficult, or in many cases impossible, for them to conceive children.
Pentagon-backed research at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina could fundamentally alter the prognosis for such individuals.

Doctors there have managed to reconstruct intact testicles using stem cells from soldiers themselves.

These testicles can create sperm, and could ultimately be inserted into the patients whose cells were used to grow them.

The most significant obstacle, however, is that the testicles produced in the lab thus far have been near-microscopic in size.

Dr Anthony Atala, the institutes’s director, says considerable work remains before their breakthrough yields a viable end-product.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.