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Cleveland State Community College recently held an in-service for faculty and staff. Two new instructors were welcomed at the event.

They found that the protein IZUMO1 is critical for the binding of sex cells, and also plays an essential role in fusing the cells to allow the exchange of genetic material.

The discovery that ancient creatures like archaea can also contain fusexin proteins raises the possibility that the Fsx1 protein is the ancestral version from which fusogens derived.