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日本培育出人工精子 没男性也能生育后代
2011-08-08 16:17:39      来源:中国日报

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日本培育出人工精子 没男性也能生育后代

Sperm were artificially created in a breakthrough experiment which raises ethical questions. Here a sperm approaches an egg(dailymail.co.uk)

Scientists have used artificial sperm to restore fertility in a breakthrough that could allow thousands of men to fulfill their dream of fatherhood.

In ‘hugely exciting’ experiments, they have made sperm from scratch, and, for the first time, succeeded in using it to produce healthy young.

Remarkably, the baby mice in the experiments went on to have offspring themselves. The landmark research paves the way for new drugs for infertility, the heartbreaking but little-understood condition that affects one in six couples.

But it also opens a Pandora’s boxof ethical dilemmas. Possibilities raised range from men being made ‘redundant’ from the process of creating life, to babies being created through entirely artificial means.

Critics also question whether it is right to meddle withthe building blocksof life just to allow couples to satisfy their desire to have children.

Scientists have been trying for years to coaxembryonic stem cells – ‘master cells’ widely seen as a repair kit for the body – into turning into sperm. They have had some success but any mice that became pregnant by such means gave birth to unhealthy offspring that quickly died.

Now, Japanese scientists have come up with a series of steps that appear to solve the problem.

They started with stem cells taken from mouse embryos in the first days of life and, using a cocktail of chemicals and vitamins, turned them into sperm in the earliest stages of development. These were then transplanted into the testicles of infertile mice, where they grew into fully-functional sperm.

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