Terms: sperm
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• Social Studies > Current Events Archives > Health > 2008
• Technology > Hardware > Cell Phones
• Reference and Periodicals > Medical > Seniors > Aging

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1. Whales, Sperm (PBS Online and Nature)
   Shows how sperm whales live. Requires the (free) Flash plug-in. 7-00

2. Sperm Stem Cells Grown Outside the Body (New York Times)
   "The ability to cultivate the sperm production cells in large numbers would make it possible to try swapping mutated genes in the cells for normal or improved versions." 11-04

3. -02-07-08 Association Found Between Cell Phone Use and Sperm Count (MSNBC News)
   "Spending hours on a cell phone each day may affect the quality of a man’s sperm, preliminary research suggests." 02-08

4. -10-10-05 Glowing Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria (BBC News)
   "A protein that makes the sex glands and sperm of male mosquitoes glow could help reduce malaria infection rates, UK scientists say."
   
   "They used the protein to tag male mosquito larvae, the genes of which can be manipulated to make them infertile."
   
   "As malaria is spread only by female mosquitoes, the scientists hope sending such sterile males into the wild could help kill off infective populations." 10-05

5. -06-08-06 Fertility and the Aging of Men (ABC News)
   "Doctors tend to agree that Down syndrome isn't attributable to older men; however, as men age, their sperm can more often inaccurately transcribe a chromosome's letters, resulting in dwarfism, which occurs about one in every 25,000 births." 06-06