Male Infertility Treatment: Dr. Paul Turek’s Artificial Testicle Implant?

Male Infertility Treatment: Dr. Paul Turek’s Artificial Testicle Implant? Here’s good news for infertile men. If two scientists from San Francisco, California are successful, in about a decade, infertile men may be able to produce their own sperm and conceive children.

The two men hope to create the world’s first artificial human testicle that can produce sperm. Now with a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, they have embarked on the project, which they hope to finish in five to seven years.

Previous studies have shown scientists treating infertile male mice by producing sperm using stem cells from the mouse, but this has not been replicated in humans, said Dr. Paul Turek, one of the researchers and director of the Turek Clinic, a men’s health medical practice in San Francisco.

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