JUNO-coated beads as a functional assay to capture and characterize fertilization-competent human sperm

This work is part of the projects PID 2020-114109GB-I00 and PID2024-159920OB-I00 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by ERDF, EU and 23046/GERM/25 funded by FSRM/10.13039/100007801 to M.J.-M. This work was also supported, in part, by the Gates Foundation [INV-055841]. The conclusions and opinions expressed in this work are those of the author(s) alone and shall not be attributed to the Foundation. Under the grant conditions of the Foundation, a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License has already been assigned to the Author Accepted Manuscript version that might arise from this submission. Protein production and characterization and biophysics infrastructure is supported by funding from a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant (PJT-203841) and Canada Foundation for Innovation John R Evans Leaders Fund (CFI-JELF) to J.E.L. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.