Guwahati, June 1 -- Eoghan Cunnane, University of Limerick

Imagine a future where a diagnosis of untreatable male infertility is no longer the end of the road - because science has found a way to produce human sperm from lab-engineered testicular tissue.

This might sound like science fiction, but I'm leading a team of researchers at the University of Limerick (UL) to work on making the production of human sperm from lab-engineered testicular tissue a reality. If successful, this could redefine fertility treatment and bring hope to the millions of people around the world affected by male infertility.

Why now? Because male reproductive health is in decline - and the numbers are too stark to ignore.

Over the past seven decades, sperm cou...