Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Human sperm uses asymmetric and anisotropic flagellar controls to regulate swimming symmetry and cell steering

Amazing stuff! Since the days of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) we have been observing human sperm and only in 2020 were scientists able to discover how exactly sperm moves forward! Given the fact that e.g. human infertility may to some extent depend on how sperm approaches the egg ...

"... Additional investigation is needed, though, to know if sperm move the same way in the female reproductive tract, where they must contend with fluid movement and narrow passages to reach the egg ..."

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