sperm
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Her lab found a protein on the surface of zebrafish eggs which pointed to a lock-and-key mechanism for allowing the sperm in.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Men can contribute to babies well into their 80s—yes, sperm quality declines but not that much—while the ability to get pregnant is pretty much capped at age 45.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
It was mating season for the sperm whales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
A couple have spoken of their relief to be rescued after a sperm whale collided with their yacht.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
They travel down from egg to newborn; a few come in with the sperm, but most are maternal passengers.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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 other Seed-plants the sperms are mere passengers, carried all the way by the pollen-tube; this fact has alone rendered the Angiospermous method of fertilisation through a stigma possible.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
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