sperm
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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
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
Experiments show that the motility of bull sperm is decreased by dinitrophenol, which interferes with the energy- coupling mechanism with inevitable loss of energy.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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
They identified these sperms by measuring how much calcium they absorbed.
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
The baleeners are usually found toward the Arctic or Antarctic regions, while the sperms and their ilk hold to the warm seas.
From Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers by W. Bertram Foster
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