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  • How sperm and egg fuse into one - Fusion protein could be targeted to stop parasites from...

    03/26/2008 11:56:45 PM PDT · by neverdem · 6 replies · 988+ views
    Nature News ^ | 25 March 2008 | Claire Ainsworth
    Fusion protein could be targeted to stop parasites from reproducing. When two become one: the mysterious process of fertilisation.Getty Boy meets girl. Sperm meets egg. Now, scientists are a step closer to understanding the climax of this eternal love story: how sperm and egg merge to create a brand new individual. “It’s really the defining moment in an organism,” says William Snell, a biologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, who headed one of the teams that made the find. Snell, along with a group in Britain, discovered that a protein called HAP2 is involved...