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How human sperm really swim: research challenges centuries-old assumption – Mirage News
The sperm tail moves very rapidly in 3D, not from side-to-side in 2D as it was believed. polymaths-lab.com …
A breakthrough in fertility science by researchers from Bristol and Mexico has shattered the universally accepted view of how sperm ‘swim’.More than three hundred years after Antonie van Leeuwenhoek used one of the earliest microscopes to describe human sperm as having a “tail, which, when swimming, lashes with a snakelike movement, like eels in water”, scientists have revealed this is an optical illusion.
Using state-of-the-art 3D microscopy and mathematics, Dr Hermes Gadelha from the Universi…
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