Professor Karim Nayernia, the stem cell biologist leading the experiments said, "This is very amazing and very exciting. They have heads, they have tails and they move. The shape is not quite normal nor the movement, but they contain the proteins for egg activation."
In experiments upon mice, the offspring resulting from the artificially created sperm all died shortly after being born.
"Soon we will be able to isolate stem cells from the skin to generate sperm cells. This would enable us to look at individual stem cells from an infertile patient and find out what is the cause," he explained. "We hope that eventually this could help create sperm for infertile men."
The United States has helped to broker discussions between the rightful government of Honduras and the ousted former president and would-be dictator Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales. The discussions will take place in Costa Rica.
“It is a better route for him to follow at this time than to attempt to return in the face of the implacable opposition of the de facto regime,” said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “Instead of another confrontation that might result in loss of life, let’s try the dialogue process and see where that leads.”
The "de facto regime" is the democratically elected government of Honduras which removed Zelaya from power when he attempted to circumvent the Honduran constitution with a referendum that would have allowed him to remain as president for life.
The Honduran military, supported by the Supreme Court and Congress, prevented a Venezuelan plane carrying Zelaya from landing in Honduras last weekend as protests at the airport left two people dead from gunshots. Micheletti has said Zelaya faces at least 18 charges handed down by the Supreme Court involving violations of the constitution and abuse of power.
“The best thing you can do is try to negotiate early elections,” said Riordan Roett, director of Western Hemisphere Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Under the Honduran constitution Zelaya was scheduled to step down in November when elections will be held to select his replacement.
Cyber attacks which began on July 4 against the US Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department, as well as the South Korean presidential Blue House and Defense Ministry, National Assembly, are suspected of coming from North Korea.
The attacks in South Korea seemed to be connected to the attack of US government services, said Ahn Jeong-eun, a spokesperson at Korea's Information Security Agency.
South Korea's Yonhap News Agency is reporting that North Korea may be behind Tuesday's cyber attack.
The country's National Intelligence Service (NIS) suspects North Korea or its sympathizers may have been behind the attack, according to sources who spoke to the news agency on condition of anonymity.
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