Sentences with phrase «human oocytes»
"Human oocytes" refers to the eggs that are produced by women, which are necessary for reproduction. These eggs play a crucial role in making a baby when combined with sperm. Full definition
But few labs had a source of human oocytes with which to attempt the experiment.
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«Genetic Drift Can Compromise Mitochondrial Replacement by Nuclear Transfer in Human Oocytes» by Mitsutoshi Yamada et al. published in Cell Stem Cell on Thursday 19th May.
Scientists publishing in the journal Cell Stem Cell have reported the production of functional human oocytes from discarded genetic material, a process which they suggest could one day assist in fertility treatment or mitochondrial replacement therapy.
In 1998, Kuwayama started testing on human oocytes and embryos.
It «painted a picture of her working on a human germline project, when she had just been learning about human oocytes» for the pig genome engineering.
Outline title: «First live birth using human oocytes reconstituted by spindle nuclear transfer for mitochondrial DNA mutation causing Leigh syndrome» by J. Zhang et al. published in outline form by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine's Fertility and Sterility journal website.
Mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRT) entail the modification of human oocytes and zygotes to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diseases from mother to child.
The results come from the first year of the Human Oocyte Preservation Experience (HOPE) Registry, which is analysing the results of thawed - egg IVF over five years.
Human oocytes were collected by laparoscopy and fertilized and cultured in vitro.
Finally, Van Blerkom has conducted extensive work on the internal structural organization of the human oocyte.
«We were able to study, in human oocytes, where the chromosomes were in relation to the polar body,» Albertini said.
But cloning efforts have failed because, unlike mouse or human oocytes, rat oocytes start to divide less than an hour after they are removed from the animal's body.
If ES cells could be a source of human oocytes, scientists might be able to use them for nuclear transfer experiments rather than using eggs from human donors, which are in short supply.
While many important developments impacted the field, two that garnered significant public, political and scientific attention in 2016 were the proliferation of clinics using unproven stem cell «therapies,» and the steps forward in therapeutic modification of human oocytes (unfertilized eggs) through a process called mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT).