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Reproductive medicine gets a new tool Free
Wei-Xia Ang1,+, Cheng-Xu Delon Toh1,2,+, Huck-Hui Ng2,3,4,5,6,*, and Yuin-Han Loh1,3,*
1Epigenetics and Cell Fates Laboratory, A*STAR Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore 138648, Singapore
2NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, Singapore 117597, Singapore
3Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore
4Gene Regulation Laboratory, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore 138672, Singapore
5Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore
6School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore *Correspondence to:Huck-Hui Ng, E-mail: nghh@gis.a-star.edu.sg; Yuin-Han Loh, E-mail: jonathan.loh@imb.a-star.edu.sg
J Mol Cell Biol, Volume 3, Issue 6, December 2011, 320-321,  https://doi.org/10.1093/jmcb/mjr027

Infertility is a problem faced by millions worldwide. In a recent paper published in Cell, Hayashi et al. (2011) provided a potential solution for male infertility through the generation of functional spermatozoa that can give rise to healthy offspring from embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells.