Is this a human sperm? This work was retracted from publication in 2009, never to be seen again. Did it really happen? Did a company in Lyon, France actually make human sperm in a dish, as touted in a press release? Or will our hopes be dashed as before? Your guess is as good as mine. A Symphony of Biology Compare spermatogenesis to a symphony score, but a masterful one, like a work of Beethoven or Sibelius. Exquisitely orchestrated, with complex movements performed by a sea of instrumentalists. And the harmonic result? A fully formed sperm. The press release announcing the feat was disappointingly bereft of details. Were all the score’s movements included? Were all of the instrumentalists there? Were the instruments in tune? How did the piece
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East Meets West in Medicine
The Yin (left) and Yang (right) in all its glory. There I go again, a Western guy giving a lecture to an Eastern crowd. What team do I play on, you ask? In fact, I am honored to give a keynote at the First Integrative Fertility Symposium in Vancouver. Ok, call me a “swingman,” but the Easterners have a lot up their medical sleeves too. Ask Western medicine how to help a guy relax, and they’ll say, “don’t work so hard and take this pill.” Ask an Easterner, and they might suggest acupuncture, mindfulness and meditation. Which approach is better: a patch or a fix? You decide. One Happy Family Eastern and Western medicine have very similar goals – to restore the body to a