Scientists have finally grown a pair.
Researchers at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University are growing “laboratory testicles” to supposedly help with male infertility. Created out of cells extracted from mouse testes, these artificial balls are meant to look and act like human testes to help treat sex disorders and infertility.
Led by Dr. Nitzan Gonen, the testicle research is meant to figure out some of the issues that cause male 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, according to New York…
