The biological factory that produces reproductive cells has a robust quality control system to identify and eliminate eggs ...

Those germ cells that enter meiosis become oocytes, the source of future eggs. Consequently, females are born with a finite number of oocytes arrested in the first meiotic prophase. Within the ...

Scientists explore emerging strategies to combat reproductive aging, highlighting promising therapies and technologies to ...

One characteristic of oocyte development and physiology that ... are spread throughout the cytoplasm during different stages of meiosis and early embryo development. 3 Further analysis were ...

the egg's DNA wriggles around in meiosis, preparing for its breakout moment. In another video, green fluorescent protein has instead been used to track and reconstruct the surface of an oocyte in ...

and stars indicate clusters of oocytes devoid of hybridization signal. Unlike its DNA repair role in somatic cells, homologous recombination has a distinct role in meiosis in ensuring proper ...

In 2009, she became a Group Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB). At the LMB, her group carried out the first studies of meiosis in live human oocytes and developed strategies for ...