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Frozen Sperm

NPR's Joe Palca reports that scientists have found a way to freeze cells that eventually become sperm cells, unfreeze them and allow them to develop into mature sperm cells. The advance should lead to improved methods for treating male infertility, and allow scientists to give men a certain sense of 'immortality.'

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