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Sperm cells are excellent swimmers

Sperm cells swim long distance against current to reach destination

"We found that if you create the right flow velocities, you can observe them swimming upstream for several minutes. They're very robust," Dunkel said. Researchers observed that the sperm were not swimming in a straight line upstream, but in a spiralling motion, along the walls of the channel.