{"id":122701,"date":"2021-05-19T06:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/sperm-help-persuade-the-female-to-accept-pregnancy"},"modified":"2021-05-19T06:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:22:29","slug":"sperm-help-persuade-the-female-to-accept-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/sperm-help-persuade-the-female-to-accept-pregnancy","title":{"rendered":"Sperm help \u2018persuade\u2019 the female to accept pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sperm-help-persuade-the-female-to-accept-pregnancy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conditions like recurrent miscarriage, preeclampsia, preterm birth and stillbirth are affected by the female\u2019s immune response in ways that the partner\u2019s sperm contribute to.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Sperm are generally viewed as having just one action in reproduction\u2014to fertilize the female\u2019s egg\u2014but studies at the University of Adelaide are overturning that view.<\/p>\n<p>Published in Nature Research journal <i>Communications Biology<\/i>, new research shows that sperm also deliver signals directly to the female reproductive tissues to increase the chances of conception.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson Research Institute\u2019s Professor Sarah Robertson, who led the project, said: This research is the first to show that the female immune response is persuaded by signals in sperm to allow the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/male+partner\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">male partner<\/a> to fertilize her eggs and conceive a pregnancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conditions like recurrent miscarriage, preeclampsia, preterm birth and stillbirth are affected by the female\u2019s immune response in ways that the partner\u2019s sperm contribute to. Sperm are generally viewed as having just one action in reproduction\u2014to fertilize the female\u2019s egg\u2014but studies at the University of Adelaide are overturning that view. Published in Nature Research journal Communications [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}