Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilize it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This ...

Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilise it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This ...

To figure out how they slither through substances that should, in theory, resist their movement, a team led by Kenta Ishimoto, a mathematical scientist at Kyoto University, investigated the motions of ...

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Flagella and cilia are elaborate cytoskeletal structures conserved from protists to mammals, where they fulfil functions related to motility or sensitivity. Here we demonstrate novel roles for the ...

Abstract: Sperm flagellum is often poorly visible and difficult to detect while being useful in research and IVF treatments. A pixel-wise temporal analysis is used to estimate motion and processed to ...

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Scientists have studied a new target for antibiotics in the greatest detail yet – in the fight against antibiotic resistance. The ‘molecular machine’ flagellum is essential for bacteria to cause ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater collected near Hachijojima Island. The newly discovered species, named Viscidocauda repens, belongs to the ...

Altmetric provides a collated score for online attention across various platforms and media. See more details Mammalian sperm delve into the female reproductive tract to fertilize the female gamete.