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 ...

Once they reach the egg, sperm bind to the egg’s surface, initiating a fusion of their genetic material to form a zygote.

Minutes after a sperm and egg unite, the fertilized egg releases ... thereby enabling their fusion," explains Paulina Pacak, a bioinformatician at ETH Zurich and first author of the study.

Novel methods of membrane fusion may help women ... zona and then manipulating the eggs together using a micropipette. The authors say the intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) technique ...

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 ...