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.

which was key to identifying the ‘lock and key’ fusion. It wasn't previously known how the proteins “worked together as a team in order to allow sperm and egg to recognize each other ...

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 ...

A 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 discovery, ...

Ovum or eggs are one of the biggest cells in the body and relatively, only a few are made. Fertilisation is the fusion of a sperm nucleus and an egg nucleus to form a zygote A zygote is a ...

This fusion of gametes is called fertilisation. Gametes are formed by a type of cell division called meiosis. In animals the gametes are sperm and eggs. In flowering plants the gametes are pollen ...

A new study has uncovered a mechanism that prevents egg and sperm binding, preventing fertilization, which opens a new avenue for fertility research.

Some of these problems stem from failures in the proper recognition, adhesion, and fusion of sperm and an egg. A key part of the fertility process involves IZUMO1, a protein on the surface of ...