This bolsters the argument that “stem cells can generate any cell in the body,” and also has big ramifications for future fertility technologies.
From Time.com:
“Researchers at Newcastle University in England report they have coaxed the first human sperm cells from embryonic stem cells, in a remarkable demonstration of how quickly the field of stem-cell science is moving.
The achievement, described in the journal Stem Cells and Development, comes just 11 years after the first human-embryonic-stem-cell line was created — an eyeblink in scientific terms — in the lab of James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin…”
Scientists Create Human Sperm from Stem Cells