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Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Polina Lishko, and her postdoc Melissa Miller have "discovered the switch that triggers the power kick sperm use to penetrate and fertilize a human egg." Their findings are published in the “Fast Release” issue of the journal Science.
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