{"id":26215,"date":"2016-05-12T10:20:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T09:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=26215"},"modified":"2016-05-12T10:20:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T09:20:19","slug":"amazing-scientists-make-sperm-from-skin-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/amazing-scientists-make-sperm-from-skin-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"AMAZING! SCIENTISTS MAKE SPERM FROM SKIN CELLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sperm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sperm.jpg\" alt=\"sperm\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sperm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sperm-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sperm-580x326.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sperm-174x98.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Spain say they have created human sperm from skin cells.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Simon, the scientific director of the Valencia Infertility Institute set out with a team of researchers to find a solution for the roughly 15% of couples worldwide who are unable to have children and whose only option is to use donated sperm or eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Simon and his team managed to reprogramme mature skin cells by introducing a cocktail of genes needed to create gametes.<br \/>\nWithin a month, the skin cell was transformed to become a germ cell which can develop into sperm or an egg, but it did not have the ability to fertilise, they found.<br \/>\n&#8220;This is a sperm but it needs a further maturation phase to become a gamete. This is just the beginning,&#8221; Simon said.<\/p>\n<p>The finding from this research is a medical feat which could eventually lead to a treatment for infertility.<\/p>\n<p>The result of their research, which was carried out with Stanford University in the United States, was published in <em>Scientific Reports<\/em>, the online journal of Nature.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>S.O.Z <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Spain say they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2584],"tags":[2704],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26216,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26215\/revisions\/26216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}