For reproduction to be successful, an egg cell must divide perfectly. Egg cell divisions are so error-prone, however, that they are the leading cause of miscarriages and birth defects in humans.
Cell & Microbiology
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Northwestern Medicine scientists discovered a new and unique transport mechanism within developing egg cells in fruit flies, according to a study published in eLife.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 14, 2022
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People are having children later than ever before. The average age of new parents in the United States has been rising for at least the past half century.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 3, 2022
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Researchers from KeyGene and Wageningen University & Research (WUR), in collaboration with colleagues from Japan and New Zealand, have discovered a gene that will make it possible to produce seeds from crops that are genetically ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 6, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Bonn have developed a method to generate embryo-like cell complexes from the stem cells of mice. The method provides new insights into embryonic development. In the medium term, it might also ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 16, 2021
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It's a tough time to be a shark. Pollution, industrialized fishing, and climate change threaten marine life, and the populations of many top ocean predators have declined in recent years. In addition to studying sharks in ...
Plants & Animals
May 13, 2021
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A cast of so-called 'nurse cells' surrounds and supports the growing fruit fly egg during development, supplying the egg—or 'oocyte'—with all the nutrients and molecules it needs to thrive. Long viewed as passive in this ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 22, 2021
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USC postdoctoral researcher Xi Chen knows that you have to break a few eggs in order to grow chicken stem cells. His work on maintaining embryonic stem cells (ESC) from chicken eggs provides insight into stem cell pluripotency ...
Biotechnology
Mar 8, 2021
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Egg cells are by far the largest cells produced by most organisms. In humans, they are several times larger than a typical body cell and about 10,000 times larger than sperm cells.
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 5, 2021
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Egg cells start out as round blobs. After fertilization, they begin transforming into people, dogs, fish, or other animals by orienting head to tail, back to belly, and left to right. Exactly what sets these body orientation ...
Cell & Microbiology
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