<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2025/link-2025-10-how-sperm-achieve-overdrive.aspx" dsn="blogs"><title>Fuel for the finish line: How sperm achieve ‘overdrive’</title><description>Researchers pinpoint the molecular 'switch' that supercharges sperm for their final sprint to an egg.</description><pubDate>10/13/2025</pubDate><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2025/10-balbach.380.png" alt="Two researchers in lab coats stand beside a computerized microscope."/></image><externalNewsArticleLink>https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/10/how-sperm-achieve-overdrive</externalNewsArticleLink><categories/><broadcast>bmb</broadcast><tags><tag>infertility treatment</tag><tag>male contraception</tag><tag>nonhormonal male birth control</tag><tag>reproductive science</tag><tag>sperm metabolism</tag></tags></item>