Generation of pluripotent stem cells from adult human testis

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This is a writeup in Nature of the recent discovery that human and mouse spermatogonial cells can be rendered into pluripotent cell lines with similarities to embryonic stem cells.

"Here we report the successful establishment of human adult germline stem cells derived from spermatogonial cells of adult human testis. Cellular and molecular characterization of these cells revealed many similarities to human embryonic stem cells, and the germline stem cells produced teratomas after transplantation into immunodeficient mice

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