Oocytes are immature egg cells that develop in almost all female mammals before birth. The propagation of future generations depends on this finite reserve of cells surviving for many years without ...

Using open-source computational models of a fruit fly oocyte, researchers were able to recreate these life-creating eddies in action. The egg cell lies at the very foundation of all life on Earth.

Recent studies in mice suggest that how the egg cells hold onto and get rid of their proteins may be key to this survival. Although most proteins are renewed every few days, two studies show that some ...

What are the epigenetic changes that occur in mice germ cells throughout their maturation? Studies in mice help us generate a picture of exactly how oocyte and sperm become properly programmed at ...

The fertilized egg has all the mRNA needed for proteins during rapid cell division ... by polyadenylation in the cytoplasm of the oocytes after fertilization was still valid and intriguing ...

Melina Schuh has been fascinated with ovarian germ cells, or oocytes, since she began her graduate studies in 2004. “[I] realized that only little was known about these important cells that are ...

Exceptionally long-lived macromolecules in mammalian ovaries and oocytes serve as pillars for lifelong reproductive health span.

Germline stem cells that produce oocytes in vitro and fertilization-competent eggs in vivo have been identified in and isolated from adult mouse ovaries, Nature Medicine reported on March 26.

1.Kyogoku, H. and Kitajima, T.S.: "Large cytoplasm is linked to the error-prone nature of oocytes." Developmental Cell 41(3), 287-298 (2017) 2.Sakakibara Y, et al.: "Bivalent separation into ...

1.Kyogoku, H. and Kitajima, T.S.: "Large cytoplasm is linked to the error-prone nature of oocytes." Developmental Cell 41(3), 287-298 (2017) 2.Sakakibara Y, et al.: "Bivalent separation into ...