Monday, July 13, 2009

Artificial reproduction through stem cells

Stem cell are the buildings blocks of our body. They make up the cells in our body in which makes up our blood nerves or even brain. Therefore, it leads to the possibility of producing male cells in humans.
Sperms grown from a mouse's cell proved successful in fertilizing it's females eggs and produce offspring. Even so, scientists have been able to turn male embryonic stem cells into sperms by treating it with a varitey of substances which turned the embryonic stem cells into germline stem cells, which then turned into primitive male stem cells. The primitive stem cells then splitted in which matured into sperms.
However, the possibility of producing a male sperm from a female stem cell is still beyond our technological reach due to its biological barriers. Thereby, it leads to a possiblity of doing so in future.

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