Sentences with phrase «few egg cells»

When the researchers used lab techniques to block this transfer, few egg cells were able to form.

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The «Puffle» cones are crafted from gai daan jai, which translates to «little eggs,» — a fluffy, eggy waffle with semi-spherical cells — with a number of English interpretations (bubble waffles, eggettes, and Hong Kong cakes, just to name a few).

That was the dogma until a few years ago, when a group at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston discovered stem cells tucked away in the protective lining of the ovary that mature into fresh eggs.

Although the bulk of the commercial manufacturing uses cultures of bacteria, such as Escherichia coli or Chinese hamster ovary cells, a few biotech companies are trying to produce therapeutic proteins in the milk of transgenic mammals (such as GTC Biotherapeutics, which is using goats; PPL Therapeutics, which is using sheep; and BioProtein Technologies, which is working with rabbits), transgenic chicken eggs (such as Avigenics or Vivalis), or even in transgenic crops (such as ProdiGene or Meristem Therapeutics); but it is early days for these «pharming» methods.

Currently, most influenza vaccines in the United States are produced using chicken eggs, while a few are made in cell culture or by using recombinant DNA technologies.

The team also found that in older mice, the cells surrounding the egg produced fewer feeding tubes.

Newly fertilized eggs before gene editing (left) and embryos after gene editing and a few rounds of cell division (right).

It is particularly challenging to study epigenetics in egg cells as there are so few of them.

SCNT requires a large number of eggs and produces very few stem cell lines.

A few years ago, scientists figured out why: the receptor that the virus uses to get into cells is shaped differently in a human nose than it is in a chicken egg.