Egg and sperm race: Scientists create precursors to human egg and sperm

Thursday, December 25, 2014 - 18:00 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have created primordial germ cells -- cells that will go on to become egg and sperm -- using human embryonic stem cells. Although this had already been done using rodent stem cells, this is the first time this has been achieved efficiently using human stem cells.

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