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The iPSCs will be particularly useful if Colossal’s scientists can turn them into sperm and egg cells, something that Hysolli’s team is already working on.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024
In this process, the nucleus is removed from a healthy egg cell and replaced with one from another cell.
—Charlotte Hu, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2018
To turn the edited cells into a pig, cloning is required, taking the edited cells and fusing them with a donor egg cell that has had its nucleus removed to create a pig embryo.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
According to new research, this was done by manipulating the chromosomes of a male stem cell, which turned it into a female egg cell, wrote ABC News.
—Devika Rao, The Week Us, theweek, 31 Jan. 2024
The team retrieved sperm from a southern white rhino in Austria, collected egg cells from a southern white rhino in Belgium, fertilized the samples in vitro in Italy and finally transferred the two embryos to the surrogate mother in Kenya, according to CNN.
—Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
Ultimately one dominant follicle releases an oocyte, or immature egg cell.
—Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
And although those chromosomes come from both parents, nearly all humans inherit their mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from their mother's egg cell.
—Sneha Khedkar, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
The mature egg cell, observes Roger Gosden, a reproductive biologist at the University of Leeds in England, is the rarest cell in the human body.
—John Travis, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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Word History
First Known Use
1880, in the meaning defined above
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“Egg cell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/egg%20cell. Accessed 13 May. 2024.
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egg cell
nounMedical Definition
egg cell
noun
: ovum
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