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There are now 30 embryos from the northern white rhinos that can be used to produce babies, and all are oocytes from Fatu, Hildebrandt said.
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Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
Both gonads are functional and produce spermatozoa and oocyte respectively after puberty.
—Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
Ultimately one dominant follicle releases an oocyte, or immature egg cell.
—Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
Su and her colleagues were able to characterize the RNA into five distinct genetic profiles or time periods of embryonic development: the oocyte or egg, zygote or fertilized egg, cleavage, morula and blastocyst stages.
—Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 17 Jan. 2024
When the primordia start maturing into oocytes or testes, head-formation genes (different from the Hox genes), which are also responsible for forming a head in other creatures, become active in the middle of the stock body.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023
The egg freezing process, otherwise medically known as mature oocyte cryopreservation, is a step that some women prefer to take to prepare for family planning down the road.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 21 Dec. 2023
The granulosa cells no longer abandoned the oocytes.
—John Travis, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
In the ovary, the manipulated cell developed into an egg cell, or oocyte.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2023
Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
Both gonads are functional and produce spermatozoa and oocyte respectively after puberty.
—Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
Ultimately one dominant follicle releases an oocyte, or immature egg cell.
—Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
Su and her colleagues were able to characterize the RNA into five distinct genetic profiles or time periods of embryonic development: the oocyte or egg, zygote or fertilized egg, cleavage, morula and blastocyst stages.
—Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 17 Jan. 2024
When the primordia start maturing into oocytes or testes, head-formation genes (different from the Hox genes), which are also responsible for forming a head in other creatures, become active in the middle of the stock body.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023
The egg freezing process, otherwise medically known as mature oocyte cryopreservation, is a step that some women prefer to take to prepare for family planning down the road.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 21 Dec. 2023
The granulosa cells no longer abandoned the oocytes.
—John Travis, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
In the ovary, the manipulated cell developed into an egg cell, or oocyte.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2023
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oocyte
noun
oo·cyte
ˈō-ə-ˌsīt 
: an egg before maturation : a female gametocyte
called also ovocyte
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