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...article published in the Oct. 11 edition of the journal Nature, David E. Clapham, a professor at Harvard Medical School, described a new kind of ion channel in sperm that is necessary for sperm to fertilize the egg. Clapham and his group named the protein that forms the channel “CatSper...
...Ion channels are proteins in the membranes of cells that allow small charged particles, or ions, to enter and exit the cell. The ions need to be at the proper concentrations for the cell to work properly...
Clapham says he was looking for new ion channels when he discovered one that happened to be present only in sperm...
Garbers published a paper in Tuesday’s edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in which he identifies “CatSper2,” an ion channel similar CatSper...
Unlike Clapham, who is in interested primarily in ion channels, Garbers’ lab has done work on the way that sperm gets signals from its environment...