sperm

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A licenced clinic checked the sample four hours after we received it and said all sperm cells were dead.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

Albon and hundreds of other men have used Facebook to connect with women looking for sperm - some groups have up to 40,000 members.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

These marks can originate in either sperm or egg cells and are passed to offspring.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

Like Herman Melville’s Pequod, the Mentor sought the sperm whale and its barrels of valuable oil.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Indeed, preformation was largely a restatement of Pythagoras’s theory—that sperm carried all the information to make a new human.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee