New Device Can Instantly Turn Sperm-Flow On and Off
Imagine, being able to turn your fertility on and off with the flick of a switch. That's basically what a Clemens Bimek, a German carpenter has invented: A switch which can turn off the flow of sperm...
View ArticleEggs Literally Spark With Light Upon Contact With Sperm, and We Caught It on...
Life flashes In 2011, a team from the Northeastern University discovered that egg cells from mice literally spark upon conception. They did not know any means that we had to film this event until 2014....
View ArticleScientists Created Sperm from Human Skin Cells
Creating Germ Cells Couples who rely on donated sperm or eggs to conceive may soon have a new option. Scientists in Spain have managed to turn human skin cells into germ cells, which can eventually be...
View ArticleDrug-Delivering “Mecha-Sperm” May Be the Future of Cancer Treatment
Killer Sperm Humanity's battle with cancer has goaded us to turn to some of the most unconventional therapies possible in hope of combating the deeply emotional and turbulent disease. Physicians are...
View ArticleA "Molecular Condom" Could Be the Future of Male Contraception
Stopping Sperm From Fertilizing In a paper published last week in PNAS, researchers at UC Berkley have revealed a new possibility for male contraception: disabling the sperm cell from developing...
View ArticleThere's a New Plan to Make Male Birth Control a Reality
Preventing Pregnancy The US National Institutes of Health and the Population Council are set to run a clinical trial for a promising new form of male birth control. 420 couples from the UK, Sweden,...
View ArticleSperm Quality Is Falling. Chemicals in Your Home May Be to Blame.
Sperm Fail In the past 80 years, the quality of human sperm has declined by 50 percent — not only is sperm count down, but the sperm that do exist aren't as mobile as their predecessors. In 2016, a...
View ArticleEating Crap as a Teen Can Permanently Affect Men’s Fertility
Permanent Damage Teen guys with dreams of one day having kids might want to rethink their after-school snack. A new Harvard University-led study found that eating a "Western diet" – one packed with...
View ArticleFor the First Time, Scientists Grow Human Sperm Stem Cells in Lab
For the first time, scientists have been able to grow spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs), which are the cells that eventually develop into fully-fledged sperm, in a laboratory environment. It's too soon...
View ArticleResearchers Sent Freeze-Dried Mouse Sperm to Space to Study Radiation
200-Year-Old Sperm Sure, Elon Musk sending his Tesla up to space is cool — but that’s nothing compared to *checks notes* scientists launching freeze-dried mouse sperm to space. Researchers studying the...
View ArticleAnti-Vax Group Creates "Unvaxxed Sperm" Crypto Because God Is Dead and We...
Do the Sperm Because we live in a nightmare of our own making, a group of ardent morons have created a new cryptocurrency based on the idea that vaccines lower your sperm count. The cryptocurrency,...
View ArticleIsrael Extracting Sperm From Dead Soldiers and Using It to Create Children
A bizarre trend is taking hold in Israel: the families of fallen soldiers are having their deceased loved ones' sperm harvested, with the hope of that one day the extracted sperm will be used to father...
View ArticleScientists Say Massive Drop in Sperm Count Could "Threaten Mankind’s Survival”
Sperm counts appear to be declining all over the planet— and some scientists think it could be yet another mortal threat to our survival as a species. A new meta-analysis published in the journal Human...
View ArticleMale Birth Control Pill Found To Be 100 Percent Effective in Mice Trials
We're one step closer to finally having male birth control on the market, thanks to a promising new study that found one short-term prototype to be super successful in immobilizing sperm — in mice, at...
View ArticleBooze Affects Sperm More than a Month After Cessation in Mouse Research
The effects of boozing can be detected in sperm for more than a month after cessation and can lead to some pretty serious birth defects, Texas A&M University scientists have found in — at least in...
View ArticleScientists Grow Teeny Tiny Testicles in Laboratory
Good news for bad nuts: scientists have succeeded in growing itty bitty testicle organoids in a lab. In a press release, Israel's Bar-Ilan University announced that its researchers had successfully...
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