Normal Swimming Sperm (VIDEO)

University of California - Davis

Caption

These are monkey sperm swimming through cervical mucus. DEFB126 and the negatively-charged sugars extending from it allow sperm to swim through mucus.

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Ted Tollner, UC Davis

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