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  • [Photo] Martin Kucej • August 17, 2002
    An article by Kendall Powell:

    ``Researchers have turned mice into factories producing goat and pig sperm - using testes grafted onto their backs. In future, transplants might preserve the fertility of cancer patients or help to conserve endangered animals.

    ``The procedure involves transplanting a tiny amount of testicular tissue from a newborn animal under the skin of an adult mouse. `In theory, you can make sperm from any mammalian species in the mouse,' says team leader Ina Dobrinski of the University of Pennsylvania.''

    Full story (free to read):
    http://www.nature.com/nsu/020812/020812-8.html

    Published in Nature, August 15th, 2002 (not free to read):
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature00918

Discussion forums: Mice are producing other species' sperm

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weird?
Submitted by Nobody ; posted on Sunday, February 23, 2003
does no body thnk thats weird?

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