Parmi les gagnants de son concours International Science & Engineerings Visualization Challenge 2012, la National Science Foundation vient d’attribuer une mention honorable à l’animation Fertilization.
L’animation vidéo d’une fécondation qui relate l’aventure de 300 millions de spermatozoïdes qui entreprennent leur voyage vers l’ovule, en passant par le col, la cavité utérine et la trompe de Fallope. Un seul de ces spermatozoïdes réussira à féconder l’ovule.
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Fertilization
Credit: Thomas Brown, Stephen Boyd, Ron Collins, Mary Beth Clough, Kelvin Li, Erin Frederikson, Eric Small, Walid Aziz, and Nobles Green Nucleus Medical Media
The video « Fertilization » starts with 300 million sperm, following their perilous journey up the cervix and into the fallopian tube with unprecedented detail and continuity, say Thomas Brown, chief creative officer of Nucleus Medical Media. By the time the last few dozen surviving sperm reach the egg, he says, « you’re famished, troubled, and hopeful. » In a new twist based on recent science, he says, the first sperm to reach the egg is rewarded with an embrace, as the egg’s inner membrane encloses and absorbs it.