How to Use egg cell in a Sentence

egg cell

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  • Ultimately one dominant follicle releases an oocyte, or immature egg cell.
    — Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The egg cell is then transferred to the uterus of a sow.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Next, the sperm cell has to pick up speed to be able to fuse with the egg cell, and the sperm's cell membrane has to become more fluid.
    — Carla Bleiker, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2018
  • And each of your sperm or egg cells carries a mish-mash of your own genes, so none of your children will get the same thing.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 July 2017
  • As the reproductive cells of the body, these can be either egg cells or sperm cells.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 15 Jan. 2019
  • At least some males at every site had female egg cells.
    — National Geographic, 3 Feb. 2016
  • Using this method, the team hooked a protein called folate receptor 4 that is found on the surface of the mouse egg cell.
    — Erika Check Hayden, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2014
  • This method is faster than those that involve altering sperm or egg cells.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 14 May 2020
  • In nature, they're formed from primordial germ cells and can be seen as precursors to egg cells.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2018
  • So to reach the ovaries, scientists need to use a special tool with an ultrasound probe and needle at the end to aspirate the egg cells.
    — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The ovaries behaved like the natural ones, picking out an egg cell to mature and pass along, allowing the mice to bear healthy offspring.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2017
  • When a cell divides in two to make an egg cell, the other half becomes a polar body, which contains a near-identical copy of DNA.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2021
  • John Gurdon removes the nucleus from the egg cell of a frog and replaces it with a nucleus of a mature cell from a tadpole.
    — Adam Piore, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2016
  • Next, by growing and treating the male stem cells with a drug, they were turned into female cells and produced functional egg cells.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But the vast majority of cells (save for red blood cells, sperm or egg cells, and cells along parts of the digestive tract) have the gene switched permanently off.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The egg cell was then implanted into a surrogate mother, who then live birthed the newborn.
    — Charlotte Hu, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Sometimes, there's no guarantee their sperm will fertilize the egg cell.
    — Karen Pallarito, Health, 12 May 2023
  • But when the insertion of a retrovirus occurs in a sperm or an egg cell, the change can become permanent, passed on forever.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Recent, early research has shown that stem cells can be used to form the precursors of sperm and egg cells, which can later be combined to form a new embryo.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2019
  • In the ovary, the manipulated cell developed into an egg cell, or oocyte.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2023
  • While these studies found that the fluid had no live sperm cells (the cells that can fertilize your egg cells), another study found that about one-third of guys do produce live sperm cells.
    — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The edited genome would then be implanted into an egg cell of that related species to develop.
    — Christine Kenneally, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Some of this sperm was injected into egg cells taken from females of the southern white rhino subspecies.
    — NBC News, 4 July 2018
  • There isn’t a surviving mammoth genome that’s complete enough to implant directly into an egg cell, so cloning is out of the question.
    — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 9 Feb. 2022
  • This means all your mitochondrial DNA was passed down, intact, from your mother's egg cell.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2012
  • Scientists had replaced the nucleus of an egg cell with the nucleus from a parent cell — in Dolly’s case, an udder cell from a Finn Dorset sheep.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2023
  • Cloning requires access to an egg cell that is ready for fertilization but not yet fertilized.
    — Christine Kenneally, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2023
  • In Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua’s cases, fetal fibroblast nuclei were transplanted into the egg cell.
    — Charlotte Hu, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The team’s method involved removing the nucleus from a Scottish Blackface sheep’s egg cell and electroshocking it with a mammary gland cell from a Finn Dorset sheep to enable the two to fuse.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
  • Telomerase is an important tool for cells that divide frequently—like blood cells, the lining of our digestive systems, or sperm and egg cells.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2019

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