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Testicles May Be New Source of Stem Cells

Posted on October 10, 2008

New research has shown that testicles could be a new source for viable non-embryonic stem cells. The very thought of testicular biopsies, resonating through the editorial staff of Medgadget, calls for a continued search for other methods to obtain stem cells.The new stem cells, known as human adult germline stem cells (GSCs), were grown by researchers in Germany and the U.K. by adding special growth factors to spermatogonial cells extracted from testes. Spermatogonial cells are stem cells in the adult testis that normally generate only one type of differentiated cell (sperm). But with the rig...

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proteins , stem cells