On the face of it, a sperm’s work seems pretty straightforward: locate an egg and fertilise it. Job done.
But in the world of a sessile broadcast-spawning marine invertebrate – immobile organisms in which…
Lilting voice? No need to look on the dark side.
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Few individuals in the Star Wars universe inspired more fear than the Sith Lord, Darth Vader. But beneath the dark exterior, the commander-formerly-known-as-Anakin-Skywalker might have been hiding a dark…
Poor sperm quality is a characteristic common to all men, not just some.
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Infertility plagues one in six Australian couples, and in approximately half of these cases the problem lies in poor semen quality.
The discovery that a man has poor semen quality can be emotionally challenging…