Using stem cells, scientists were able to grow completely new prostate glands in mice. The prostate is a gland that aids in creating and expelling semen, and is often the cause of cancer in older men (pictured is a prostate cancer cell). But now that San Francisco researchers can grow prostates in mice, will doctors be regrowing human prostates any time soon? It’s unlikely, because we don’t need prostates to survive (even if a lot of men enjoy having them), and growing new ones might actually
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Regrow Your Prostate Gland in a Mouse [Mad Science]
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