Egg cells are our largest cells. They are so large, in fact, that they should have problems distributing proteins and nutrients within themselves. A new study analyzing this little-understood ...

In this slide show showing somatic cell nuclear transfer, as it's also known, we explain how we clone egg cells to create embryonic stem cells in our lab at Children's Hospital Boston. Unless ...

A woman's egg cells are already formed in her body before she is born. However, with increasing age, DNA damage accumulates ...

Almost 60% of women with Dysmenorrhea have Endometriosis, an illness that causes severe pain, damages reproductive organs, ...

A new research paper was published in Aging ( Aging-US ) on February 18, 2025, Volume 17, Issue 2, titled "Transcriptomic ...

It was a finding too striking to be trusted. Elvan Böke, a molecular biologist at the Center for Genomic Regulation in Spain, was studying how immature egg cells in animals, called oocytes, stay ...

The ovary consists of cells other than oocytes, like stromal and thecal cells ... but cautioned against designing medical therapies to delay ovarian aging or improve egg quality based on these results ...

A Yale-led research team has uncovered how a naturally occurring biological mechanism found in mammals is able to prevent ...

Germ cells and sex cord stromal cells form when a fetus (baby) is developing. A fetus is made from a sperm cell and an egg cell. Germ cell tumors (GCTs) are also known as germ cell cancer. Germ cells ...