sperm
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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
Their sperm donor has withdrawn his consent for further use, and the remaining five embryos in storage will be destroyed after paying £23,000 on fertility treatment.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
When, as an adult, he fell in love with Audrey, another sperm donor baby from Paris, the question became even more pressing.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Because sperm cells are basically devoid of mitochondria, almost all of an embryo’s mitochondria come from the egg.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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 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