sperm
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The couple often used Xuan’s sperm and a donor egg to conceive the children, documents reviewed by the Journal showed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
It was mating season for the sperm whales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Young men often don’t know their fertility status and might have a low sperm count to begin with.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2026
Their sperm donor has withdrawn his consent for further use, and the remaining five embryos in storage will be destroyed after paying £23,000 on fertility treatment.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The theory was eventually called spermism, highlighting the central role of the sperm in determining all the features of a fetus.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
They identified these sperms by measuring how much calcium they absorbed.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2024
Using the method, the team focused on sperms with defective capacitation, a process through which sperms become capable of fertilizing an egg.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2024
“If we want to go international and help women and couples in different parts of the world, we need non-Danish sperm, sperms of all colours,” says Schou.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 13, 2015
The history of endocrinology can be traced back to Dr.Brown-Séquard injecting himself with dog sperms to study its effect on his vitality and vigor.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2011
In consequence there are two classes of sperms in man; female producing containing 24 chromosomes, and male producing containing 23 chromosomes.
From A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Thomas Hunt Morgan
