Stem cells used to create artificial sperm, egg

LONDON: Researchers, led by an Indian-origin scientist, have for the first time used human embryonic stem cells to create primordial germ cells that give rise to egg and sperm. Although this had already been done using rodent stem cells, scientists at the University of Cambridge in UK and the Weizmann Institute in Israel are the first to achieve this feat using human stem cells.

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