A breathtaking new clip shows a pulsing egg cell exploding out of its follicle - a sac in the ovaries that houses immature eggs before they're released for fertilisation. Scientists used cells ...
The first video footage of an egg beginning its journey could lead to major breakthroughs in fertility treatment.
Typically, eggs or oocytes grow within fluid-filled sacs called follicles in the ovary. Granulosa cells (GCs) surround the ...
The idea of maturing oocytes in the ovary to produce offspring has been implemented in various ways. One such method, ovarian ...
Mature egg cells, or oocytes, are essential for fertilization in assisted reproductive technologies. However, some 'denuded' ...
Eggs pop out of ovaries. But what propels them has been unknown. Now, researchers from the University of Connecticut explain in an article published in the September 18 issue of the Proceedings of the ...
Video of ovulation in an isolated ovarian follicle expressing the oocyte marker Oct4–GFP. This allowed for 3D surface reconstructions of the oocytes to be generated (green), to track their ...
Attempts to obtain eggs and offspring using oocytes in ovary have been made for keeping desirable traits in livestock, preserving human fertility, etc. Ovarian transplantation, one of those methods, ...