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With sperm bikes and fertility chips, sperm is high profile in the news this week.

Sperm on Board

First, Seattle residents may be surprised to see a 110-pound "sperm" cycling around town. The city has debuted a high profile "sperm bike," to make deliveries from a sperm bank to fertility clinics.

The sperm bike first appeared in the bike-friendly city of Copenhagen, Denmark, home of The European Sperm Bank. the sperm bank used the custom-designed bike with a cooling system built inside the "sperm head" to deliver sperm to fertility clinics in an environmentally friendly way. one of the largest in Europe. The European Sperm Bank's Seattle lab worked with Portland's Splendid Cycles and Antimatter.com to build the sperm structure, which is constructed of Jesmonite on top of a Bullitt cargo bike. The bike is 9 1/2 feet long with the tail and weighs about 110 pounds fully loaded. The Seattle version also includes a small electrical motor to give riders a boost on Seattle's many hills.

Gary Olsen of Seattle Sperm Bank told the Seattle Post Intelligencer: "It's getting a lot of looks. People are stopping. They don't quite understand what's going on. You put a giant sperm on a bike, and you're going to get some attention."

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