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How to Tame Wild Sperm

By Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D. on April 27, 2012 in Birth, Babies, and Beyond

I whacked sperm the other day. In a scientific sort of way. And it made me really happy. 

I was in an embryology lab using a microscope to spot them and a skinny pipette to bop them on their heads. My job, or really my pretend job: to stop a few sperm in their tracks as if I were a real embryologist capturing one and cramming it into an egg. Read More

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Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D.

Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D., is the author of Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank.

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