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Stress-free sperm sexing

2014-01-06 15:39:29| Livestock - Topix.net

Mass differences between bovine sperm bearing X or Y chromosomes have been measured by researchers in Italy.

Scientists prove that fears and memories can be inherited via sperm

2013-12-04 17:53:21| Extremetech

While scientists have documented numerous cases where the children of parents who experienced significant trauma in life have in fact inherited specific predispositions, direct experimental evidence for this phenomenon, and a plausible mechanism, has until now, been lacking. Reporting in Nature Neuroscience, researchers have now shown that mice can inherit the acquired fears of their fathers through some mysterious reprogramming of -- his sperm.

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Improving Survival of Pig Sperm

2013-04-26 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

US - Although US cattle genetics are exported all over the world in the form of frozen semen, the same is not true for pigs because boar semen does not freeze well. In an attempt to improve semen storage and pig reproduction, animal scientists at the University of Illinois are looking at how sperm survives in the sow oviduct.

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