Sentences with phrase «egg cells manage»

At the ASCB / IFCB meeting in Philadelphia, Feric and Brangwynne will take the gravity story one step further on December 8, describing how giant Xenopus egg cells manage to support thousands of membrane-less compartments inside the nucleus.

To investigate how the egg cell manages to rid itself of such a resilient structure, Joana Pinto, a PhD student in the Lénárt lab, developed fluorescent tags for mother and daughter centrioles in a starfish egg cell and recorded the entire process of eliminating them.

Not exact matches

Beginning with mouse egg cells, Daley and his team tricked these egg cells, or oocytes, into thinking they had been fertilized (a process called parthenogenesis) and managed to isolate embryonic stem cells from the subsequent early mouse embryos.

Scientists managed to transfer the extinct frog's nuclei into the egg cells of a barred frog (right), but so far, the embryos have yet to fully develop.

They obtained 29 eggs and managed to fertilize one, but the embryo did not progress beyond the four - cell stage.

Using an enzyme that targets some 200 sites on the X chromosomes in mosquito eggs, the team has managed to shred X chromosomes so thoroughly «that it's too much for the cell to repair,» Burt said.