Did you know human oocytes “switch off” to protect themselves?
➡️ A new
#CRGenomica study shows that as eggs mature,they partially shut down their cellular clean-up systems.
This pause may help them stay healthy for decades until fertilization
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Human eggs power down to protect themselves - El·lipse
This image, by Gabriele Zaffagnini from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), showss a human oocyte fixed and immunostained. Mitochondria are shown in orange and the actin cytoskeleton is shown in green. DNA is shown in light blue. The image is part of a recent study by the Elvan Böke lab that showed that human […]
