Source: Medical News Today
Article Date: 19 September 2007 - 16:00 PDT
Summary:
Adult testicles could one day become a common source for stem cells to cultivate a host of tissue types to combat disease, while at the same time avoiding the ethical resistance to embryonic stem cells, say researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College. Using SPCs (spermatogonial progenitor stem cells) which came from the testes of mice, the scientists were able to tweak them in the lab to form MASCs (multi-potent adult spermatogonial-derived stem cells). These cells were developed into endothelial (working blood vessel) cells and tissue, cardiac cells, brain cells and a range of other cell types.
