Researchers have uncovered how egg cells prepare for the creation of life. Their work reveals the secrets of the Balbiani ...

A novel molecular tool developed by a Lehigh University professor of biological sciences is enabling scientists to precisely ...

Researchers have uncovered how egg cells prepare for the creation of life. Their work reveals the secrets of the Balbiani body, a remarkable structure ...

Using open-source computational models of a fruit fly oocyte, researchers were able to recreate these life-creating eddies in action. The egg cell lies at the very foundation of all life on Earth.

Mammals are born with all the oocytes (or egg cells) they'll ever need, but how the cells remain alive and active for so long is something of a mystery. A pair of studies have now revealed it could ...