2010.05.25

The infrastructure of the human testicle chromosome is clarified.

The group of Prof. Hitoshi Kurumizaka

at the Faculty of Science and Engineering(Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioseience) succeeded in the first time clarification of instability and the infrastructure in the basic structure of an important human testicle chromosome in the world to the spermatogenesis.

It is thought that this study results are the possibility of causing the clarification of the spermatogenic defect assumed to be the main factor of the male sterility, and can contribute also to the development of the reproductive medicine.