Scientists grew a pair of testicles in a lab — and they offer new hope for male infertility

NY Post ^ | February 20, 2024 | Tracy Swartz

[Twotone]

This is pretty nuts — researchers at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University have grown “laboratory testicles” they hope could eventually ease male infertility, which affects 10% to 15% of American men.

The tiny, artificial organs, produced from cells extracted from mouse testes, are said to resemble the structure and function of natural mouse testicles. The researchers, led by Dr. Nitzan Gonen, are aiming to develop human-like testicles from human stem cells to help treat developmental sex disorders and infertility.

“Fertility clinics are able to identify some of the problems that cause male infertility — a low sperm count or an abnormal structure — but we don’t understand fully what causes this, which genome mutations led to the condition, or what went wrong in the testicle’s functioning, as a result of which the tubes do not carry the sperm well,” Gonen told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz last week.

“Now it will be possible to study these subjects within the system of the model we have produced,” she added.

Biologists have already generated organoids — three-dimensional miniature versions of immature organs — that resemble the brain, kidneys and intestines, from stem cells.

[Ann Archy]

LOL! EXACTLY what I was thinking!!

Democrats are LAW-LESS because the Republicans are BALL-LESS!!

[glaseatr]

I knew someone would beat me to the punch.

[Colt1851Navy]

Could they possibly grow larger weiners?

[bigbob]

and a brain...

[Wuli]

Here’s an on topic joke.

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Because the sperm won’t ask for directions.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

That’s Nuts

[Opinionated Blowhard]

LOL. This ought to be a good thread.

[Shamrock-DW]

Mouse balls? We’ve got enough cheese-eating liberals as it is now.

[wyokostur]

Here for the comments :)

[COBOL2Java]

I wonder where they got the samples to experiment on...

[MikelTackNailer]

[Magnum44]

[kosciusko51]

I’m surprised I was the first.

[coalminersson]

Spot on!

[Eagles6]

Republican congresscritters, you mean.😉

[bgill]

Even at mouse sized, they’d be an improvement.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...they started in the lab because everybody knows it is impossible in Congress.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What do Ikea’s Swedish Meatballs have to do with this article?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Just how big of a Wiener do you want? Isn't one enough?

[Manic_Episode]

I thought this was an article about lab grown meat....