Researchers at OHSU have demonstrated a new technique to treat #infertility by turning skin cells into #oocytes, or eggs. Shown here, an image of an oocyte with a bright image of a skin cell nucleus before #fertilization.
#Biology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/09/bio09302502.html
#oocytes — Public Fediverse posts
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Vibrating Human Eggs Clean For IVF. Biologists at Cornell University with a microfluidic chip through which eggs can pass and be cleansed of cumulus cells with vibration-induced flow. #oocytes #cumulus #ivf #icsi #microchip #cleansing
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Scientists examine how #friction forces propel #development in a marine organism.
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-scientists-friction-propel-marine.html
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Sorry for the pay wall on this but bottom line is, scientists have taken XY cells from the tail of an adult mouse, cultured them in a proper soup of growth factors and produced an oocyte which they then fertilized with mouse sperm, implanted the embryo in a surrogate and produced viable pups! #sexcell #fungibility #malecellsmakeoocytes #oocytes #mouse
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Induction of fetal meiotic oocytes from embryonic stem cells in cynomolgus monkeys
Mitinori Saitou and coworkers establish in vitro maturation of monkey #pluripotent #stemcells into fetal #oocytes as a unique new model for human #oogenesis
https://www.embopress.org/doi/10.15252/embj.2022112962