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...measuring the current that flows across the sperm’s plasma membrane for the first time, Yuriy V. Kirichok and Betsy Navarro of the Children’s Hospital in Boston, found that sperm have a unique ion pathway. The discovery allowed Kirichok and Navarro to determine the function of the cation channel of sperm (CatSper) and could potentially lead to the development of new contraceptives designed to block the protein...
...When Kirichok undertook the challenge in early 2004, “sperm cells had a very bad reputation among physiologists,” he wrote in an email...
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