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3D images of sperms binding to the egg surface

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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have obtained the first 3D snapshots of a sperm protein attached to a complementary egg coat protein at the beginning of fertilisation. The study, which reveals a common egg protein architecture that is involved in the interaction with sperm in both mollusc an
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