Stem Cells Can Develop Into Gametes

Stem Cells Can Develop Into Gametes

The American Society of Reproductive Medicine issued a press release today reporting that researchers at Cornell University were able to generate additional lines of pluripotent stem cells from an egg and an existing stem cell. The existing stem cell lost half its chromosomes and functioned as the male germ cell. Another team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania did research on mouse eggs, which “concluded that mouse embryonic stem cells were capable of being cultured in a laboratory to develop into gametes.”