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Aging

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The Role of Sperm in Aging

In 2008, a group of Hungarian researchers wanted to study how sperm ages meotically in the wild as it's meant to be. So they went out and caught 100 male common toads in the mountains and then released 52 of them. They found that the re-hybridated males had the most sperm motility. After their body made sperm, shutting everything down again helped prevent sperm aging. Something about hibernation slows the biological process of aging even in specific cell population.

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