Glowing green sperm point way forward for infertility research

19 September 2005

A new way of studying sperm function has been developed which will aid research into male infertility.

In work published in this month?s edition of the journal Biology of Reproduction, an international team led by Oxford researchers has shown for the first time that it is possible to introduce a synthetic gene (a transgene) directly into a normal, live animal in such a way that the gene is expressed in mature sperm.

The new method could be extremely important for fertility research because it allows many different aspects of gene function in sperm to be studied. This means that scientists can begin to understand the details of how the sperm works and how infertility may result when things go wrong.

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Last count, how many? Are you one of them?

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