
BOUND Mouse sperm (left, red) flock to a polymer bead coated with the sperm-binding sections of a protein found around unfertilized eggs (illustration, right). Such beads could someday be used as contraceptives or a method for identifying healthy sperm, researchers report.
M.A. Avella et al/STM 2016
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