Tips To Get Pregnant: ‘Juno’ Confirmed To Help With Conceiving, Future Of Fertility Treatments To Change With New Discovery

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From the list of tips to get pregnant, this new discovery may be the most effective thus far for those who have been getting unlucky conceiving.

Bustle reports that a recent study published in Nature has stated that getting pregnant might have gotten much easier.

A group of researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a genome research institute in the UK, has discovered that eggs appear to carry a special protein receptor that allows a sperm to attach itself and fertilize the egg.

Medical News Today has reported that back in 2005, researchers in Japan discovered a protein on the surface of the sperm that recognizes the egg so they can merge to form an embryo.

The protein is called Izumo, after a Japanese marriage shrine. Now that Juno has been found, getting pregnant may have gotten a tad bit easier.

Senior author Dr. Gavin Wright, stated, "We have solved a long-standing mystery in biology by identifying the molecules displayed on the sperm and egg which must bind each other at the moment we were conceived."

Wright adds, "Without this essential interaction, fertilization just cannot happen."

The researchers reportedly developed an artificial version of Izumo and used it to detect "partners" on the surface of a mouse egg. MNT reports that they found it connected to folate receptor 4 and renamed in Juno.

A strain of mice where the females lacked the Juno protein on the surface of their eggs were engineered soon after.

Those that didn't have the Juno protein were infertile and their eggs did not fuse with normal sperm.

This showed that Juno was essential when it comes to female fertility.

The research team reportedly hopes that this discovery will lead to developments and improvement in fertility treatments and new contraceptives, putting it very high up on the list of tips to get pregnant.

Those who have been looking for tips to get pregnant, Juno may be the fertility treatment of the future.

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