Posted on January 30th, 2012 by Health News
The ideal male contraceptive would be inexpensive, reliable, and reversible. It would need to be long acting but have few side effects. New research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology used commercially available therapeutic ultrasound equipment to reduce sperm counts of male rats to levels which would result in infertility [...]
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Posted on January 11th, 2012 by Health News
Who knew that male fertility depends on sperm-cell architecture? A University of Illinois study reports that a certain omega-3 fatty acid is necessary to construct the arch that turns a round, immature sperm cell into a pointy-headed super swimmer with an extra long tail…
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Posted on January 10th, 2012 by Health News
Who knew that male fertility depends on sperm-cell architecture? A University of Illinois study reports that a certain omega-3 fatty acid is necessary to construct the arch that turns a round, immature sperm cell into a pointy-headed super swimmer with an extra long tail.
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Posted on December 27th, 2011 by Health News
(MedPage Today) — Exposure to certain organochloride chemicals were associated with chromosomal abnormalities in the sperm, according to the results of a cross-sectional study.
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Posted on December 1st, 2011 by Health News
Males who place a laptop on their laps with the WI-FI on might have a greater risk of reduced sperm motility and more sperm DNA fragmentation, which could, in theory, undermine their chances of becoming fathers, researchers from Nascentis Medicina Reproductiva, Argentina, and the Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA, reported in the journal Fertility and [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2011 by Health News
A Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researcher has achieved a significant breakthrough in male fertility, producing normal sperm from mouse cells…
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Posted on October 21st, 2011 by Health News
Two studies presented at a conference in the US this week suggest that better diets make for better sperm: one compared a Western diet hight in red meat to one high in fish, vegetables and whole grains and found the latter was linked to higher sperm motility, and the second found that a [...]
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Posted on August 21st, 2011 by Health News
Did you know that the female human egg actually “captures” sperm in order to begin the fertilization process? In what is called a “sticky” egg, a sugary SLeX molecular outer coating enables the two entities to bind together. Researchers have uncovered exactly how a human egg captures an incoming sperm to begin the [...]
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Posted on August 20th, 2011 by Health News
Did you know that the female human egg actually “captures” sperm in order to begin the fertilization process? In what is called a “sticky” egg, a sugary SLeX molecular outer coating enables the two entities to bind together. Researchers have uncovered exactly how a human egg captures an incoming sperm to begin the [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2011 by Health News
Male infertility may soon be a thing of the past according to mice. This week new research has been released that Japanese scientists have used laboratory-made sperm, using embryonic cells, to restore fertility in sterile mice. This may open up new avenues for researching and treating infertility in people…
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