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How to make eggs and sperm

Nature volume 427, pages 106–107 (2004)Cite this article

Embryonic stem cells can develop into many specialized cell types in culture dishes. It now seems that they can also generate primordial germ cells, which then go on to form sperm and eggs.

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Figure 1: Germ cells from stem cells.
Figure 2: A possible use for eggs derived from ES cells — nuclear transplantation.

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