![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920102649im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Biologists Prove Critical Step in Membrane Fusion
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April 17, 2007
![line drawing depicting hemifused membrane](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920102649im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/membrane_l.jpg) | Brown University biologists have, for the first time, observed a critical step in membrane fusion--the process that allows for fertilization, viral infection, and nerve cell communication. The research, reported in Developmental Cell, sheds new light on this essential biological process.
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