Exhaustion of Racing Sperm in Nature‐Mimicking Microfluidic Channels During Sorting. Issue 20 (16th May 2013) - Tasoglu, Savas
Abstract Fertilization is central to the survival and propagation of a species, however, the precise mechanisms that regulate the sperm's journey to the egg are not well understood. In nature, the sperm has to swim through the cervical mucus, akin to a microfluidic channel. Inspired by this, a simple, cost‐effective microfluidic channel is designed on the same scale. The experimental results are supported by a computational model incorporating the exhaustion time of sperm.