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
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
For men using testosterone therapy under the guidance of a physician, there is a “recovery” period between ending testosterone therapy and sperm counts returning to within normal levels, but it’s often not pre-testosterone levels.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 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
Every hybrid inherited two such particles—one from the sperm and one from the egg.
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
But in addition to this it is the male in this case which is heterozygous for sex, and n goes to the male-producing sperms, N to the female-producing.
From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham
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