TL;DR: College students will compete in a unique sperm race using microfluidic chips that simulate the reproductive system, promoting male health awareness. Backed by $1.5 million in funding, the ...

Feedback is amazed to see sperm racing touted as a new track sport, but it’s going to take a lot of CGI and other fakery to help it take off Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the ...

Human sperm can swim through surprisingly viscous fluids with ease – and they seemingly defy Newton's third law of motion to do so. To figure out how they slither through substances that should, in ...

On-site doctors processed the sperm, which was then placed onto a microscopic racetrack while audiences followed along on the big screen. (Curtis Luong / Daily Trojan) In the last sperm race of Friday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We often imagine sperm as swimmers, tiny cells whipping their tails to power through fluid on a mission toward the egg. However, a ...

Ultrastructure expansion microscopy of murine male germ cells reveals the fine molecular structures of centrioles (shown in the enlarged image). DNA is stained in blue, and the chromosome axis in red.

Male infertility is a major issue worldwide and its causes remain unclear. Now, an international team of researchers led by Hiroki Shibuya at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in ...