Function Features of cell that allow it to ... Has no nucleus so there is more space available to carry oxygen Sperm cell Animal Transfers genes from male body to female gamete during sexual ...

I think that was an interesting connection.” Teperino and his team also demonstrated sperm-to-oocyte transfer of nongenetic material for the first time, observing mt-tRNA and epigenetic regulation in ...

Free radicals are unstable molecules that can damage DNA and cellular function and lead to cell death throughout the body, including the testes and sperm. “Any factor (genetic, immunological ...

New work from UC Davis and the University of Utah shows how the 3D structure of DNA inside a germ cell commits it to develop into a sperm cell. The discovery could improve understanding of fertility ...

The sperm portion of that cocktail consists of developed or mature male sex cells that can fertilize a mature female sex cell - called ... helps sperm fulfill this function in two ways: by helping ...

The tail enables the sperm to swim. The nerve cell is extended, so that nerves can run to and from different parts of the body to the central nervous system. The cell has extensions and branches ...

Sperm formation is a highly complex process that involves many changes to the cell structure ... shape and structure are key elements of sperm function, the findings from this study provide ...

Researchers showed how what appears to be a tangle of DNA is actually organized into a structure that coordinates thousands of genes to form a sperm cell. The work, published as two papers in ...

The team named these sperm-specific ribosomes Ribosome ST to distinguish them from somatic ... “Our study provides the first evidence that a male germ cell-specific Ribosome ST performed a different ...