Faced with countless competitors, a human sperm must be a world-class swimmer to win the race to an egg and fertilize it first. Scientists have now found a protein
Antibodies (yellow-orange) reveal a protein on part of a sperm’s tail. Clapham et al./Nature
that helps a mammalian sperm wiggle its long tail to speed along.
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