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oocyte - The egg mother cell; it undergoes two meiotic divisions (oogenesis) to form the egg cell. The primary oocyte refers to the state before completion of the first meiotic division; the secondary oocyte after completion of the first meiotic division. [FAO]

News archive for oocyte.

Viable mice created from two female eggs  -  Aug 20, 2007
Ars Technica,The first is that cells early on the path to oocyte (egg cell) development haven't been imprinted yet. The second is that researchers have identified a

A Unique Arrangement For Egg Cell Division  -  Aug 14, 2007
Science Daily (press release)The spindle apparatus of a mouse oocyte as seen through the microscope. Microtubules are labelled in green and chromosomes in red.

Bone Marrow Restores Fertility After Chemo  -  Aug 9, 2007
Washington Post,The oocyte is the precursor to the mature ovum (egg). "Although these oocytes derived from marrow cells don't appear competent, at least thus far,

First Case Of Successful Ovarian Tissue Transplantation Between ...  -  Aug 2, 2007
Science Daily (press release)..."Although the option of oocyte donation from the sister to the patient was discussed, the patient refused this option. She preferred a transplant because

Freezing our future  -  Jul 29, 2007
Stuff.co.nz,But oocyte cryopreservation, as it's officially known, remains the least successful. A woman is born with all the eggs she will ever have.

Oocytes from unstimulated ovaries are suitable for donation  -  Jul 25, 2007
Medicexchange (press release),Oocytes obtained from unstimulated ovaries can be used for oocyte donation and the pregnancy rates are comparable to those seen with conventional oocyte

Mickey Has Two Mommies  -  Aug 20, 2007
Science Now,Out of the question, says Ferguson-Smith, who points out that one of the women would have to be a mutant to donate the necessary genetically altered oocyte.

Bone Marrow Restores Fertility In Female Mice, Study Confirms  -  Jul 31, 2007
Science Daily (press release)This was further confirmed by experiments showing that isolated immune cells did not express the oocyte-specific marker genes previously used by Tilly's

35 and single: what about my eggs!  -  Aug 8, 2007
Times Online,I took in the highlighted article on oocyte freezing. It is true that after the age of 35, the quality of women’s eggs — oocytes — decreases by half every

Interview with Li Shangang, developer of the world's first ...  -  Jul 26, 2007
Interfax.cn (subscription),After that, you use it as a donor cell to inject it into a female rabbit's oocyte, [after superovulation treatment,] then with an electronic attack,

Beating the biological clock?  -  Aug 7, 2007
USA TodayBoth recently opted for "oocyte preservation" — freezing their eggs. This procedure, in which a woman's eggs are retrieved and stored so they can be

New glaucoma treatment studied  -  Aug 7, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...nuclear transfer, cell nuclear replacement, research cloning, and embryo cloning) involves taking an egg (or oocyte) from which the nucleus has been .

Ovarian Tissue Successfully Transplanted in Sisters  -  Aug 2, 2007
Forbes,Although the possibility of oocyte donation from her sister, Sandra Alvaro, was discussed, the patient refused this option, Donnez said.

High-tech egg hunt in race to save the rhino  -  Jul 27, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald,At 0.2 millimetres, a black rhinoceros egg, or oocyte, is almost invisible. Before the surgery began keepers had to perform the tricky task of immobilising,

SCCRM Names New Director of Embryology Laboratory  -  Aug 12, 2007
PR-GB.com (press release),...in the field of Human Embryology on the topics ICSI, embryo biopsy, oocyte freezing, laser hatching, embryo culture and blastocyst hatching mechanisms.

Cloned rabbit fine five months after birth  -  Jul 23, 2007
China Daily,They then used the fibroblast cells as the donor cell and fused it with an enucleated rabbit's oocyte (immature egg cell of animal ovary) through electric

Sisters Swap Ovaries  -  Aug 3, 2007
StaffNurse.com,...natural than egg donation, for which her sister would have to undergo ovarian stimulation with follicle stimulating hormones and then oocyte retrieval.

Ovary Transplant Between Sisters Produces Embryos  -  Aug 2, 2007
Medical News Today,...they were able to restore ovarian function after six months, and demonstrate "oocyte retrieval and embryo development". They said their work offers hope

Woman has successful ovarian transplant from her sister  -  Aug 1, 2007
News-Medical.net,Professor Donnez says the option of oocyte donation from the sister was rejected in favour of a transplant. Investigations showed that the sisters'

Animal studies confirm bone marrow transplant can help restore ...  -  Aug 1, 2007
DailyIndia.com,..."Right now, we really don't know exactly what it is in marrow that restores recipient oocyte production and rescues long-term fertility.

A seamless trespass: germ cell migration across the seminiferous ...  -  Aug 13, 2007
Journal of Cell Biology (subscription)...male infertility and correlates with severe spermatozoan head and midpiece malformation, impaired binding to the zona pellucida, and oocyte penetration.

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