Sarah Norcross, director of the Progress Educational Trust (PET), said:
We at PET are delighted that following years of painstaking research, this work in Edinburgh is now approaching the point where clinical trials can begin. This is an ingenious method of seeking to restore male fertility, and could be of immense benefit to men whose fertility has been lost or compromised by disease or by treatment for disease. Men in this predicament are an important patient group, whose reproductive options have been severely limited, but now there is now hope that this situation could change. Careful work will now need to be done to assess and refine these new techniques, but the fact that this work is now sufficiently advanced to embark on clinical trials is a remarkable achievement.
