Sentences with phrase «place egg cells»

«Keeping egg cells fresh with epigenetics: Epigenetic marks and the MLL2 protein place egg cells in stasis throughout childhood.»

New research published today (1st January) in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology sheds some light on the role of epigenetics in placing egg cells into stasis.

Not exact matches

This ancient theory, recounted by Pliny the Elder, is one of the many bizarre early attempts to explain one of life's greatest mysteries — how a nearly uniform egg cell develops into an animal with dozens of types of cells, each in its proper place.

They selected cells that had taken up the DNA and placed them in contact with cow eggs whose nuclei had been removed.

Welte explains that the production of certain proteins takes place along a type of assembly line that carries raw materials from the nucleus to the posterior end of the egg cell, where these proteins are then manufactured.

Experts take the cell nucleus of one human egg cell whose mitochondria have a defect and place it in an egg cell with «healthy» mitochondria.

The idea is that, by placing an adult cell from a diabetic, for example, into a human egg cell, the egg cell could turn back the clock of the adult DNA, or reprogram it, to its initial, pristine state.

But PPL's Irina Polejaeva then added a second nuclear transfer to the cloning protocol: As soon as the transferred nucleus expanded, as it typically does, the PPL team removed that nucleus once again and placed it in another egg cell that had just been fertilized.

Each cage was placed so that the queen could not reach the large cells where she could lay drone eggs but only the small cells where she could lay worker eggs.

The eggs are monitored to confirm that fertilization and cell division are taking place.

For you who don't know what is spaying, it is a surgical removal of a female cat's internal reproductive structures and this includes its ovaries or the place where egg cells are produced, Fallopian tubes, uterine horns or the two long tubes where a kitten soon to be develop and grow, and a small part of its uterine body or small parts of uterus which is merged with uterine horns and become one body.