Sperm-seq (VIDEO)

Harvard Medical School

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Human genetic diversity wouldn't be possible without DNA crossovers in egg and sperm cells. Two HMS studies provide new insights into how crossovers go right--and wrong, leading to infertility, miscarriages and birth defects. In this video, Avery Davis Bell, first author of one of the studies, describes how a new sperm genome-sequencing technology dubbed Sperm-seq works.

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Harvard Medical School

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