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 in the cells. Researchers at the MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences ...

They are also referred to as sex cells. Female gametes are called ova or egg cells, and male gametes are called sperm. Gametes are haploid cells, and each cell carries only one copy of each ...

If you're male, your body uses meiosis to create sperm cells; if you're female, it uses meiosis to create egg cells. Others cells in your body contain 46 chromosomes: 23 from your father and 23 ...

These, depending on specific genes, become either sperm cells or egg cells. The paper is published in the journal Nature ...

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 ...