NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE(See F.E. Duncan et al., “The zinc spark is an inorganic structure of human egg activation,” Scientific Reports, 2016.)
Image of the Day: Fertilization Fireworks
A "zinc spark," triggered when an enzyme from a sperm activates a human egg cell, is imaged using fluorescence microscopy and visualized here as a wave of light.
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