In boys who, before starting puberty, undergo radical treatments that can affect their fertility, testicular tissue can be preventively removed and frozen. This is done to preserve testicular stem ...

On the morning of Jaiwen Hsu’s stem cell transplant in November 2023, the atmosphere in the hospital felt electric. Doctors had never before tried what they were going to attempt with someone like Hsu ...

India, May 11 -- A world-first fertility restoration procedure has offered new hope to boys who may lose their ability to have biological children after undergoing cancer treatment in childhood.

An infertile man given the world’s first frozen testicular tissue implant has fresh hope of starting a family after he was able to produce sperm. The now 27-year-old had tissue from his testicles ...

Every day, people die waiting for an organ transplant. Time is at a premium, not just for those awaiting organs, but also for the organs themselves, which can deteriorate rapidly during transportation ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. A group of scientists have managed to thaw frozen human brain tissue without causing any damage to the tissue itself. The new research is coming out of the ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have demonstrated that it is possible to create early germ cells from preserved ...