sperm

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In a rare move, he was named publicly as Robert Albon by a family court judge after a case in Cardiff, to warn of the dangers of unregulated sperm donation.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

They spent roughly $70,000 to $80,000 out of pocket, including $300 to $600 each time the sperm had to be moved from the cryobank to a fertility clinic.

From The Wall Street Journal • 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

The study also revealed a rare inheritance phenomenon known as paramutation in a gene called Capn11, which plays an important role in normal sperm development.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

How could a father’s sperm “absorb” the instructions to produce his daughter’s “generative parts,” Aristotle asked, when none of these parts was to be found anywhere in the father’s body?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee