sperm
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You Could Soon Slap Barcodes On Your Sperm Or Egg
It seems like we’re putting QR codes on pretty much everything these days. And that could soon include your sex cells.
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These Robotic Sperm Could Change The Way In-Vitro Fertilisation Works
A team of Dutch engineers just published the details of a curious new invention: tiny robotic sperm that can be controlled with a weak magnetic field. Like real sperm, these so-called MagnetoSperm flip their tails to swim towards their target. Unlike real sperm, they’re made of metal-coated polymer.
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Heart Cells Power This Swimming, Sperm-Like Robot
Say what you will about these sperm-like bio-bots; they have heart. The beating of live heart cells propels a tail back and forth, so that these self-powered swimming bio-bots — the first of their kind — could one day wriggle through your body delivering drugs. No batteries needed.
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Sperm Captured In 3D For The First Time Reveals Corkscrew Swimming Patterns
Scientists, bless their brains, have finally tracked the paths of sperm in 3D. It’s the first time they’ve been successful in 3D-mapping the trajectory of sperm and it’s revealed a few things about those drippy critters: some sperm swim in corkscrew-like patterns and others are ‘hyperactive’ and hectic. Your sperm has strokes, dude.