{Scientists in Spain say they have created human sperm from skin cells.}<\/p>\n
Carlos Simon, the scientific director of the Valencia Infertility Institute set out with a team of researchers to find a solution for the roughly 15% of couples worldwide who are unable to have children and whose only option is to use donated sperm or eggs.<\/p>\n
Simon and his team managed to reprogramme mature skin cells by introducing a cocktail of genes needed to create gametes.<\/p>\n
Within a month, the skin cell was transformed to become a germ cell which can develop into sperm or an egg, but it did not have the ability to fertilise, they found.
\n\u201cThis is a sperm but it needs a further maturation phase to become a gamete. This is just the beginning,\u201d Simon said.<\/p>\n
The finding from this research is a medical feat which could eventually lead to a treatment for infertility.<\/p>\n
The result of their research, which was carried out with Stanford University in the United States, was published in Scientific Reports, the online journal of Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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