Emerging menu options for gonadal reincarnation

Excerpt

For nearly a decade now, amidst the promises and purviews of regenerative medicine, the prospects for rehabilitation or replacement of tattered organs have resonated with those unwilling to accept the fate of their aging bodies. Your personal candidate for tissue replacement is often dictated by your genetics and some combination of luck–good or bad–that challenges your organs’ abilities to withstand the test of time after years of use and abuse. Regenerative medicine is fast becoming a reality, and will likely debut on a commercial level as tractable tissue replacements for joints, blood vessels, and bladders, which are less complex, histologically-speaking. But anxious moments accrue for those whose replacement needs include the likes of hearts, brains, kidneys, and livers. What about your gonads? …