Study suggests female reproductive tract may have evolved to favor faster swimming sperm

Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 09:30 in Biology & Nature

A trio of researchers with Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medicine has found evidence that the female reproductive tract may have evolved to favor faster-swimming sperm. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, Meisam Zaferani, Gianpiero Palermo and Alireza Abbaspourrad describe their study of human and bull sperm swimming in artificial devices and what they found.

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