sperm
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By moving or functioning in groups, sperm may gain advantages in mobility, organization or overall performance.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
This membrane-enclosed substance can attach sperm to one another or create structures around them that arrange the cells into groups.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
In some species, reproductive success may depend not only on competition, but also on sperm working together.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Scientists may need to look beyond the abilities of individual sperm and pay greater attention to how group behavior affects reproductive outcomes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Indeed, preformation was largely a restatement of Pythagoras’s theory—that sperm carried all the information to make a new human.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
In the maturation divisions reduction does not occur, N chromosomes passing to one gamete, none to the other, and the latter perishes so that the sperms all contain N chromosomes.
From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham
