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C'mon Chemicals
Magazine article from: The Stranger; 2/8/2007; ; 666 words
; ...S MIND SPACE IN OF MONTREAL'S latest video, Kevin Barnes wears heavy makeup and a shiny white body suit. He looks like a spermatozoon. He dodges comets in outer space, swims with sharks, dances with men wrapped in Christmas lights, warms his hands by a fire...
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The sperm scrimmage: dept. of motility.(conception)
Magazine article from: Esquire; 1/1/1997; ; 432 words
; ...course from the vagina through the cervix, into the uterus, then up the fallopian tubes to the waiting egg. May the best spermatozoon win. Recently, however, with the rise of evolutionary biology, which takes a sperm's-eye view of sex, the sperm race, theory...
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Condoms Don't Prevent AIDS, Vatican Official Says; In a BBC Program, Cardinal Argues Against Scientific Evidence About Containing the Virus
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/10/2003; 330 words
; ...HIV. "The AIDS virus is roughly 450 times smaller than the spermatozoon," Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Vatican...the Holy City" is to air in Britain on Sunday night. "The spermatozoon can easily pass through the 'net' that is formed by the condom...
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Existence of three mechanisms for blocking polyspermy in oocytes of the mussel Mytilus edulis.
Magazine article from: The Biological Bulletin; 12/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...subsequent development of the zygote require the fusion of a single male pronucleus with a female pronucleus. Penetration of the spermatozoon into an oocyte is controlled through several mechanisms (Jaffe and Gould, 1985). Rothschild and Swann (1952) first suggested...
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Perspectives.
Magazine article from: Newsweek International; 10/20/2003; 352 words
; ...crowd of up to 10,000 Iraqi Shiites in Sadr City, during the funerals of two Shiites allegedly killed by U.S. soldiers The spermatozoon can easily pass through the 'net' that is formed by the condom. Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, the president of the Vatican...
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NEWS IN ASSISTED REPRODUCTION MICROSCOPICAL PROCEDURES
Magazine article from: Gynecological Endocrinology; 2/1/2004; ; 293 words
; ...estimate the electron microscopical ultrastructure in a deficient sperm population and we select one hypotetically optimal spermatozoon destined to the ICSI by light inverted microscopy, we loose a great amount of the structural information and we base our...
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Medicine: Toward a Male Contraceptive Pill
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/24/1994; 231 words
; ...nifedipine (sold as Procardia by Pfizer Inc.) can prevent sperm from fertilizing eggs by making a biochemical alteration in the spermatozoon's head section. Florence Haseltine, director of the Center for Population Research at the National Institute of Child Health...
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Pregnancy: Part three
Magazine article from: Community Practitioner; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Conception The process of conception or fertilisation occurs when, following ovulation, a spermatozoon penetrates the ovum. When the spermatozoon enters the ovum, the tail is shed and the nucleus in the head develops into the male pronucleus...
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Life is real -- but is it all the same?
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 9/13/2000; 262 words
; ...disagreements about the crucial terms at issue. What is it to be "human life" or "unborn children"? For example, an individual male spermatozoon is distinctly human and alive, but is it human life in the same moral sense as a newborn or geriatric? And, no doubt, a fetus...
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Is the Pope crazy?(statement that condoms not effective against disease)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 11/3/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...program Sex and the Holy City, Lopez Trujillo explained, The AIDS virus is roughly 450 times smaller than the spermatozoon. The spermatozoon can easily pass through the 'net' that is formed by the condom. That latex has holes or pores through which...
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