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Article: Mouse embryonic germ cells and male gametes created in the lab.
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- Drug Week
- Article date:
- January 2, 2004
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2004 JAN 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A pair of achievements in the laboratory offer new tools for better understanding of how gametes (reproductive cells) form and may offer insights to help scientists "reprogram" adult cells to create different tissues needed by the body.
Working with embryonic stem cells from mice, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research created a continuously growing line of embryonic germ cells - primitive cells in the embryo that mature to become sperm or eggs - providing for the first time an opportunity to study this process in the Petri dish. In a second ...