#male-infertility

#male-infertility

The goal is to create thousands of sperm from a standard tissue biopsy. The company has had a high success rate in generating sperm from dozens of tissue samples.

Before we got married in 2014, my wife, Chloe Melas, a journalist, and I were very much aligned on wanting children in the future. It's a huge step for anybody in a relationship, but we agreed that it would be great to start a family together. Then, around a year after the wedding, we tried to get pregnant - without success.

Scientists have identified a protein that may be key to proper sperm formation. Without it, male mice produced no viable sperm, they found. A team at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Japan found that a protein called Poc5 appears critical to the development of sperm's tailthe vital part that helps them swim toward an egg in order to fertilize it.

Animal studies consistently show reproductive damage across species from Toxoplasma infection, raising important questions about its potential impact on human male infertility.