The Juno–Izumo catch bond: How the egg cell and sperm hold together so tightly

Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilize it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This ...
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Sperm cells use heat as a switch to power up for egg penetration, finds study

Sperm cells are known to prefer cooler temperatures. For quite some time, a puzzling question for scientists has been: how do temperature-sensitive swimmers actually operate effectively within the ...
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Sperm Can’t Unlock an Egg Without This Ancient Molecular Key

Using Google’s AlphaFold, researchers identified the bundle of three sperm proteins that seem to make sexual reproduction possible. By Elizabeth Preston They’re the original odd couple: One is massive ...
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Landmark Discovery Reveals How Chromosomes Are Passed From One Generation to the Next

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has discovered a crucial step in how chromosomes stay connected during the development for egg cells and sperm, ...