Yale: Breaking the Egg Barrier - A Sperm Story
May 01, 2021
May 01, 2021
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 1 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news release:
Sperm doesn't shift into high gear in mammals just to show off, new research shows. It originally needed that extra speed to break the egg barrier.
Later on, evolution enabled sperm to use its souped-up swimming to navigate tricky reproductive pathways even before reaching the egg.
That is the finding of a new study led by Jean-Ju Chung, an assistant professor . . .
Sperm doesn't shift into high gear in mammals just to show off, new research shows. It originally needed that extra speed to break the egg barrier.
Later on, evolution enabled sperm to use its souped-up swimming to navigate tricky reproductive pathways even before reaching the egg.
That is the finding of a new study led by Jean-Ju Chung, an assistant professor . . .