How Sperm Get Into the Zona

Monday, June 16, 2014 - 08:31 in Biology & Nature

Before it can fertilize an egg, a sperm has to bind to and bore through an outer egg layer known as the zona pellucida. Researchers now identify the protein in the zona pellucida that sperm latch onto.

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