{"id":4416,"date":"2015-11-11T02:34:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T07:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2015-11-13T10:36:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:36:25","slug":"human-sperm-are-surface-swimmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/human-sperm-are-surface-swimmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Human sperm are surface swimmers<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4464\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sperm-20051108.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4464\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4464\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sperm-20051108.jpg\" alt=\"Human sperm (shown here in red and green for ease) swim in a slithering motion when close to a surface. (Image credit: Gilberto Santa Rosa)\" width=\"250\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Human sperm (shown here in red and green for ease) swim in a slithering motion when close to a surface. (Image credit: Gilberto Santa Rosa)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Human sperm are able to swim faster and straighter when they are close to a surface by adopting a unique \u2018slither\u2019 according to new research. The research team believes this slither may have adapted to the confined space in the reproductive system.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers filmed human sperm swimming within a micron of a glass surface and compared their behaviour to sperm swimming in a bulk solution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/ncomms9703\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>November 10<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Sinton, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Ontario<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human sperm are able to swim faster and straighter when they are close to a surface by adopting a unique \u2018slither\u2019 according to new research. The research team believes this slither may have adapted to the confined space in the reproductive system. Researchers filmed human sperm swimming within a micron of a glass surface and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[917,53,50,1290,2470],"class_list":["post-4416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-evolution","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-reproduction","tag-sperm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-19e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4466,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}