Rat testicle cells make sperm after being frozen for 23 years
www.newscientist.com
Pre-pubescent children who become infertile because of cancer treatment may be able to make sperm after reimplanting frozen testicular tissue, if animal research translates to humans

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/265520

…so they can one day have their own biological children through in vitro fertilisation (IVF)

  • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
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    3 years ago

    I’m imagining some guy who has every year who has been paid by the government for the past 23 years to take out another frozen rat testicle cell, see if it produces sperm, and tick off a checkbox on a really old piece of graph paper.