It sounds rather mysterious: a switch that is controlled by its ambient temperature. All without the touch of a human hand, except for when you’re building this sort of electronic thermostat. There ...

WashU Medicine researcher Polina Lishko, PhD, a BJC Investigator and professor of cell biology and physiology, has shown in mice that sperm have a temperature-controlled switch that changes their ...

"That hyperactive state in sperm is key for successful fertilization, and no one knew exactly how temperature triggers it," said Polina Lishko, Ph.D., a BJC Investigator and professor of cell biology ...

Sperm cells are known to prefer cooler temperatures. For quite some time, a puzzling question for scientists has been: how do temperature-sensitive swimmers actually operate effectively within the ...