The fertilized egg has all the mRNA needed for proteins during rapid cell division. What instructions ... by polyadenylation in the cytoplasm of the oocytes after fertilization was still valid ...

Meiosis II resembles a mitotic division, except that the chromosome ... The other three haploid cells are pinched off from the oocyte as polar bodies that contain very little cytoplasm.

Cell division allows a single fertilized egg to ... who heads the research group Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Oocytes at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen ...

This halving occurs through meiosis, a specialized type of cell division. During meiosis ... As a key step in this process, in an oocyte—the precursor of an egg—every pair of chromosomes ...

A light-activated enzyme morphed round starfish egg cells into different shapes. This technology could one day be useful for wound healing therapies.

Germline stem cells that produce oocytes in vitro and fertilization-competent eggs in vivo have been identified in and isolated from adult mouse ovaries, Nature Medicine reported on March 26.

The researchers investigated this complex network using the oocytes (egg cells) of the starfish Patiria miniata, which undergo a characteristic change in shape during division. This shape change ...

who heads the research group Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Oocytes at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen (Germany). Right timing of cell division His group has ...