> Some have theorized that after battling it out with millions of other sperm to penetrate an egg, sperm mitochondria are exhausted and genetically damaged in ways that would be evolutionarily disastrous if passed on to future generations.
> Xue and his team set out to find out what happens when paternal mitochondria do not self-destruct.
> Some have theorized that after battling it out with millions of other sperm to penetrate an egg, sperm mitochondria are exhausted and genetically damaged in ways that would be evolutionarily disastrous if passed on to future generations.
> Xue and his team set out to find out what happens when paternal mitochondria do not self-destruct.