The new role of sperm beside fertilization has come now it is being utilized to treat many female diseases as cervical cancer, endometriosis, ectopic pregnancy. There’s a new use for sperm – delivering cancer drugs, Standard chemotherapy is toxic to both cancer cells and normal cells, leading to symptoms like nausea, and limiting the dose a person can receive. But if chemotherapy drugs specifically targeted tumors, we could avoid this.
Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Germany and his team are experimenting with using sperm cells to take drugs to cancers in the female reproductive tract. When they loaded sperm cells with doxorubicin, a common chemo agent, and released them in a dish containing mini cervical cancer tumors, the sperm swam towards the tumors, killing 87 percent of their cells within three days. The team then fitted sperm with…
