How men continually produce sperm—and how that discovery could help treat infertility
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 - 16:10
in Health & Medicine
The production of sperm—otherwise known as spermatogenesis—generates more than 1,000 sperm per second in normal males. This productivity comes, in part, from a special cell type called the spermatogonial stem cell. The staying power of this stem cell has allowed many celebrities, including Robert DeNiro and Pablo Picasso, to father children after the age of 65.