Flagellum beating, DNA packing, Geolocalization… The strategies to fertilize the oocyte are more and more detailed by the researchers. This is a marathon for the cells.
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The key moment of the fertilization revealed
The flagellum beating is not only involved in the motility of the cell to win the race. The flagellum beating is also essential to fuse with the oocyte. This is the amazing result of the scientifict research done by Benjamin Ravaux and Christine Gourier at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris).
The flagellum, an essential tool to fertilize
Since immemoral time, sperm and oocytes have met each other to fuse. However, the mechanisms of fertilization process remain unknown. French scientists have juste unveiled one of them.
Fertilization caught on tape for the first time
The sperm cell will fuse with the egg only if its falgellum is able to keep the pace. A new parameter identified by a french PhD student, which reveals that fertilization process is still mysterious.
Fertilization: the flagellum has to keep the pace
Fertilization is a complex process. To initiate the fusion of a mature spermatozoon with an egg, close physical contact between the two cells is not enough. A French scientific team has just understood why.