The protein that helps the sperm and egg fuse together in sexual reproduction can also fuse regular cells together. Recent findings by a team of biomedical researchers from the Technion-Israel ...

A Yale-led research team has uncovered how a naturally occurring biological mechanism found in mammals is able to prevent sperm cells from interacting with an egg, preventing fertilization. The ...

Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilize it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This occurs via a type of protein binding that is among the strongest in ...

A Yale-led research team has uncovered how a naturally occurring biological mechanism found in mammals is able to prevent sperm cells from interacting with an egg, preventing fertilization. The ...

Species-specific adhesion of gametes is a prerequisite to cell fusion during fertilization, yet the underlying molecular mechanisms are not fully understood for any ...

A team of researchers has identified a sperm protein that is essential for the fusion of the sperm and egg membranes during fertilization, according to a report in this week's Nature. They called the ...