Sentences with phrase «human eggs mature»

He clarified how human eggs mature, which hormones make it happen and at which point in egg development fertilisation with sperm is most likely.

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Human multiple births can occur either naturally (the woman ovulates multiple eggs or the fertilized egg splits into two) or as the result of infertility treatments such as IVF (several embryos are often transferred to compensate for lower quality) or fertility drugs (which can cause multiple eggs to mature in one ovulatory cycle).

The human ovary contains up to 2 million immature eggs, and every month one of these matures and is released.

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In some respects, a human egg takes a lifetime to mature.