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Sperm cells

Opinion: The biggest sperm come in the smallest packages – and other odd facts about male sex cells

19 Nov 2015

Jacob Dunn (Division of Biological Anthropology) discusses why sperm are the most diverse cells found among animals.

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Section of normal testes of a young man

Study finds increased DNA mutations in children of teenage fathers

18 Feb 2015

New research reveals that the sperm cells of adolescent boys have more than six times the rate of DNA mutations as the equivalent egg cells in...

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Baboon fight

Females protect offspring from infanticide by forcing males to compete through sperm instead of violence

13 Nov 2014

Latest research shows the females of some mammal species will have many mates to ensure unclear paternity, so that males can’t resort to killing...

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Tiny sperm, big stories

10 Sep 2014

Sperm will take centre stage at a conference in Cambridge later this week as researchers from a wide range of disciplines gather to consider the...

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Male infertility is ‘culturally invisible’, finds research

01 May 2014

Research for a new book reveals a culturally sanctioned suppression of dialogue around male infertility – despite it being equally as common as...

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New conceptions: single mothers by sperm donation

25 Apr 2013

Sophie Zadeh, a PhD candidate in the Centre for Family Research, is contributing to a new study of the well-being of single mothers by sperm donation...

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