Zona pellucida surrounding the oocyte plays an important role during various stages of oocyte development. Zinc is released from the vesicles of the egg’s cortex after fertilization or egg ...

However, early-stage follicles have only a thin GC ... concentrations of oxygen to observe the difference in oocyte growth.

Why looking at well-being through the lens of developmental psychology is the key to understanding when, why, and how each of ...

In vitro matured bovine MII oocytes were successfully vitrified using the loop; after subsequent fertilization 33% of these continued development to the morula/blastocyst stage (n=42). Table 3 ...

In a sense, oocyte activation and embryo development after sperm penetration ... derived from early embryos before the eight-cell stage can develop into live individuals, indicating the ...

Mature egg cells, or oocytes, are essential for fertilization in assisted reproductive technologies. However, some 'denuded' ...

When the researchers intervened and "forced" the embryos to inherit aggregated proteins, three in five (60%) failed to complete very early stages of development. "A lot of studies have historically ...

Although IVF is commonly used in many species from livestock to humans, it has historically met with little success in horses ...

Gradually he pieced together a "blueprint" for normal cognitive development in children ... Piaget found four major developmental stages (with many subdivisions). For the first year and a half ...

Researchers at the school shared this milestone can help provide valuable opportunities to study fertilization, embryo ...

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

What came first, the chicken or the egg? If we’re talking about eggs in general, then the latter, but a new study of an ...