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Human Sperm Swims in Completely Different Way Than Previously Believed – News18
According to the researchers, the otter-like spinning of human sperm is however complex: the sperm head spins at the same time that the sperm tail rotates around the swimming direction.
In a breakthrough for fertility science, scientists have shattered the universally accepted view of how sperm ‘swim’.
About 300 years ago, 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 the water”.
This is an optical illusion, according to the new study.
“Human sperm figured out if they roll as they swim, much like playful otters corkscrewing through water, their one-s…
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