The Great Sperm Race
| 14 January, 2011 | Adie Chan |
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On your marks…get set…fertilize!
Just in case you find yourself with idle time today, the Wellcome Trust has produced an excellent animated game where you play a sperm in a mad dash to fertilize an ovum. You must navigate the vagina, cervix, and fallopian tubes before squiggling your way to the waiting egg. And watch out for those acidic vaginal walls and the maze-like cervix swarming with leukocytes. Deadly obstacles await! Out swim 250,000,000 of your flagellar friends and you just might succeed.
Play the game here, but beware…This is not as easy as it looks, and you could spend an inordinate amount of time playing sperm when you really should be working!
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