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Recent research revealed that Pure Maple Syrup may be beneficial to your health. According to a recent research conducted by Dr. Keiko Abe from the University of Tokyo, there might be a surprising way of keeping your liver healthy - usage of pure maple syrup in your diet. According to this study, Pure maple syrup may promote a healthy liver. Additionally, a research conducted before this one, at University of Rhode Island, found more than 20 compounds in maple syrup that have been linked to human health. So we are not talking about just liver now, but pure maple syrup can be good for the entire human body. This research was conducted by medicinal plant research specialist Navindra Seeram. So, Pure Maple Syrup is good for your liver.

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Potential cure for male infertility discovered



London, July 11 (IANS) Scientists have for the first time succeeded in using artificially grown sperm to fertilise mouse eggs, a discovery that could lead to a cure for some types of infertility.

Biologist Karim Nayernia and colleagues at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany, took stem cells from a mouse embryo that was only a few days old and grew these cells in the laboratory. Using a specialised sorting instrument they were able to isolate some stem cells that had begun to develop as sperm, reported the online edition of BBC News.

They encouraged these early-stage sperm cells, known as spermatogonial stem cells, to grow into adult sperm cells and then injected some of these into female mouse eggs.

The fertilised eggs grew and were successfully transplanted into female mice and produced seven babies, it said.

'For the first time we have created life using artificial sperm. This will help us to understand how men produce sperm and why some men are unable to do this,' said Nayernia, who now works at Newcastle University in Britain.

The discovery in mice could ultimately help couples affected by male fertility problems to conceive, the researchers said.

However, critics caution that any treatment is still years away from use in hospitals and clinics.

'It is more difficult to say whether artificial sperm produced this way could ultimately be used as a new treatment for male infertility,' said Allan Pacey, senior lecturer in andrology at the University of Sheffield.

There are many technical, ethical and safety issues to be confronted before this could even be considered, Pacey said.



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