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The copper version prevents pregnancy for up to 10 years, the hormonal IUD works for about five — both types mainly interfere with the sperm's ability to fertilize the egg or keep the fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus.
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The damage may reduce fertility by lowering sperm counts or reducing the sperm's ability to fertilise a woman's eggs.
Antioxidants may help men with fertility problems, study reveals 2011
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Though the egg's chromosomes are divided equally between the two new cells, as before, almost all the cytoplasm is concentrated in one daughter cell, that which contains the sperm's nucleus.
Assessing Causality 2008
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I too always envisioned the humble sperm's journey as a scene from Indiana Jones
It's The Little Things JLK 2009
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A "sex peptide" that is produced in the males 'accessory gland, the equivalent of the human prostate, and attaches itself to the surface of the sperm's tail.
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Unlike in Knocked Up, the other pregnancy movie which is basically from the sperm's perspective, Juno does actually deal with abortion.
December 3, 2007 Melissa Silverstein 2007
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It is holy, set apart and above, the queen to the sperm's king.
Feminist Philosophy of Language Saul, Jennifer 2007
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In the final step, spermiogenesis, the DNA coils in the sperm's head.
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Unlike in Knocked Up, the other pregnancy movie which is basically from the sperm's perspective, Juno does actually deal with abortion.
Archive 2007-12-02 Melissa Silverstein 2007
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which found that female crickets are able to store sperm within by slowing the sperm's aging process to prolong its viability.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post 2012
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