In their latest study 3, the authors dispersed 50 μg of nonfunctionalized MWNTs of different lengths in saline using bovine serum albumin and injected it into normal mice intraperitoneally.

a protein called bovine serum albumin, and heparin. "All of these components are required for sperm capacitation in bovine species and IVF," Gervasi says. When Gervasi and her team introduced the ...