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Sperm 'snaking' theory debunked - and it could help couples struggling to have kids

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Couples struggling to have children could have their chances boosted after a pioneering 3D filming technique revealed how sperm really swim for the first time.

The discovery by British scientists turns 350 years of science on its head which assumed their tail moved side to side “like a snake”.

It turns out this was an illusion created when the tiny tadpole-like organisms are viewed under a 2D microscope. When shown in 3D sperm were shown to swim “like a spinning top” rotating only in one direction.

Lead author Dr Hermes Gadelha of Bristol University said: “Human sperm figured out if they roll as they swim, much like playful otters corkscrewing through water, their one-sided stoke would average itself out, and they would swim forwards.” The

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