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Assisted Reproduction
Transplant enables mice to produce monkey sperm
March 22nd, 2004
Researchers at the University of California (UC) Davis and the University of Pennsylvania have successfully produced monkey sperm by transplanting tissue from the testicles of rhesus macaque monkeys onto the backs of mice in a study that has implications for biomedical research, human medicine and endangered-species conservation. Stuart Meyers and Ina Dobrinski, veterinary school researchers at UC Davis and the University of Pennsylvania, have published the results of the study online in the journal Biology of Reproduction. The researchers took small tissue fragments - less than 1 mm in diameter - from the testicles of sexually immature rhesus...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2004-03-22)
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