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Michigan State: A Biological Fireworks Show, 300 Million Years in the Making
July 08, 2021
EAST LANSING, Michigan, July 8 (TNSJou) -- Michigan State University issued the following news:

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New study shows how 'zinc sparks' -- the showers of zinc ions released by mammalian eggs immediately after fertilization -- also occur in amphibian eggs

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Five years ago, researchers at Northwestern University made international headlines when they discovered that human eggs, when fertilized by sperm, release billions of zinc ions . . .

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