Developing sperm (blue; artificially colored) fill the center of the seminiferous tubules (orange), which form the human testicle.Credit: Susumu Nishinaga/Scientific Photo Library A cutting-edge operation has restored a man’s ability to produce sperm by transplanting tissue samples that were removed from one of his testicles and frozen 16 years earlier, when he was still a
Researchers are trying to produce human sperm (shown here in a colored electron microscope image) from stem cells in the laboratory.Credit: Juergen Berger/Scientific Photo Library It sounds like science fiction: collecting blood cells from a person, engineering them to eventually develop into immature sperm, and then incubating them in a small sac grown in a