Can you see your sperm under a microscope?

[MissionComplete]

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Just wondering, and if so, what prep is needed? What magnification?

Maybe this will make embryo a little more fun!

 

[Fermata]

Yes, you can.

As a matter of fact.....the biggest sperm of any living thing in the world belongs to some obscure fern.

You can actually (barely) see them with the naked eye. They are supposed to have a crapload of flagellum, too.

 

[lattimer13]

Just wondering, and if so, what prep is needed? What magnification?

Maybe this will make embryo a little more fun!

great minds think alike!
😉

i too have wondered about this but won't try for fear of being caught. 😱

 

[Mumpu]

Mission complete, indeed. 😀

 

[Fermata]

This is a true story:

When I was around 7 or 8 years old...I was given a really cheap microscope kit for my birthday.

I had recently seen a program on television about birth/fertilization.

I was like, "This wiggly stuff comes out my wee wee?".

So later that night I proceed to urinate on a slide and check it out under my crappy microscope - no wiggly stuff. 🙁

It was only years later that I learned of my folly.

 

[Jeffy]

So later that night I proceed to urinate on a slide and check it out under my crappy microscope - no wiggly stuff. 🙁

I hope you tell that story at dinner parties.

Wow, can't wait to go to med school.

 

[TTSD]

This is a true story:

When I was around 7 or 8 years old...I was given a really cheap microscope kit for my birthday.

I had recently seen a program on television about birth/fertilization.

I was like, "This wiggly stuff comes out my wee wee?".

So later that night I proceed to urinate on a slide and check it out under my crappy microscope - no wiggly stuff. 🙁

It was only years later that I learned of my folly.

Some people actually have a crapload of sperm in their urine.

And guys, the first microscope built was designed to look at sperms.

 

[velo]

Some people actually have a crapload of sperm in their urine.
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hm, I'll bet those people aren't usually 7 year olds though

 

[JMK2005]

Just wondering, and if so, what prep is needed? What magnification?

Maybe this will make embryo a little more fun!

On my gyn rotation when we did a wet mount to look for clue cells on the regular microscope.... guess what else we found still wiggling around? 😉

 

[Adcadet]

One of our histology profs told a story about how a few years ago a student asked him for help identifying stuctures in one of his epididymis slides. The sperm were still moving.

 

[Mossjoh]

One of my college prof's told a story of how they were studying urine testing and each person had a "sample" do to pH testing on ect ect ect. (Used their own urine)

They were looking under the scope and they saw sperm cells. There were embarassed when they realized what girls urine sample that was...oops

 

[uclacrewdude]

Just wondering, and if so, what prep is needed? What magnification?

Maybe this will make embryo a little more fun!

no, but at least i can see my weiner now.

 

[Harps]

One of my college prof's told a story of how they were studying urine testing and each person had a "sample" do to pH testing on ect ect ect. (Used their own urine)

They were looking under the scope and they saw sperm cells. There were embarassed when they realized what girls urine sample that was...oops

heheheh

-Harps

 

[Amicus]

I wanted to make sure my boys could swim, so i checked it out.

All systems are go it looks like.

 

[MissionComplete]

This was the first thing that I did after being assigned a key to the microscope lab in college. Very intimate thing to do with your boyfriend.

I hope you don't consider your microscope your boyfriend!

 

[stoic]

Does anyone here know what type of media you would culture sperm cells in?

I've got some GFP and some lipofectamine.... and I want to see neon sperm.

 

[CaptainJack02]

Does anyone here know what type of media you would culture sperm cells in?

I've got some GFP and some lipofectamine.... and I want to see neon sperm.

hey why not?! if it works, call me - we'll set up a company.

"drink this up, fellas....and your lady can now BLOW IN THE DARK!"

 

[16846]

Does anyone here know what type of media you would culture sperm cells in?

I've got some GFP and some lipofectamine.... and I want to see neon sperm.

I don't think you can culture sperm as they are not heterotrophic. In contrast to most other organisms, sperm are like devices where the batteries cannot be replaced, once they run out of power they just die... 🙁

 

[Fermata]

I don't think you can culture sperm as they are not heterotrophic. In contrast to most other organisms, sperm are like devices where the batteries cannot be replaced, once they run out of power they just die... 🙁

Is all of the energy appropriated soley for movement(flagellum)?

 

[klinzou]

Yes, you can.

As a matter of fact.....the biggest sperm of any living thing in the world belongs to some obscure fern.

You can actually (barely) see them with the naked eye. They are supposed to have a crapload of flagellum, too.

Is that the species Ophioglossum reticulatum? The one with the largest number of chromosome pairs? (630) ...

 

[Fermata]

Is that the species Ophioglossum reticulatum? The one with the largest number of chromosome pairs? (630) ...

Perhaps.

What makes me laugh is that the organism with the highest diploid number on the planet is a fern.

Who would have thunk?

 

[uclacrewdude]

Does anyone here know what type of media you would culture sperm cells in?

I've got some GFP and some lipofectamine.... and I want to see neon sperm.

female human non-keratinized stratified squamous epithelium. culturing requires 2-6 hrs, so she cant swallow or spit right away.

 

[16846]

Is all of the energy appropriated soley for movement(flagellum)?

To the best of my knowledge