London, July 09: In a breakthrough that could lead to new treatment for male infertility, scientists in Britain claim to have created human sperm using stem cells in a technique that could revolutionise fertility treatment.
Researchers at the Northeast England Stem Cell Institute, who made the breakthrough using cells from an embryo, said that with some minor changes, the sperm could theoretically fertilise an egg to create a child.
They hoped that within ten years the technique could be used to allow infertile couples to have children that were generally their own. It could even be possible to create sperm from female stem cells which could mean a woman having a baby without the help of a man.
–PTI