Sperm may 'sniff out' eggs
Human sperm use a chemical sensor to help them swim towards the egg, according to a new study. Scientists based at the Rohr University, Bochurn in Germany and the University of California in Los Angeles, US, showed that sperm have a protein on their surface that allows them to detect...
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Banking on Biobank
by Juliet Tizzard
This week's BioNews reports on the House of Commons Science andTechnology Committee and its recently published views on the Medical Research Council. Of most interest to BioNews readers will be its view that the planned genetic database, Biobank UK, suffers from a 'lack of confidence in some quarters'. In...