Communication between oocytes and granulosa cells is essential for oocyte formation, dormancy, reawakening, and maturation. Researchers have demonstrated that a protein complex called the exocyst ...

Several follicles containing eggs develop each menstrual cycle, supported by specialist 'cumulus' cells that aid in each oocyte's development into a mature egg, or ovum. But only one follicle ...

Germline stem cells that produce oocytes in vitro and fertilization-competent eggs in vivo have been identified in and isolated from adult mouse ovaries, Nature Medicine reported on March 26.

A new research paper titled "Disruption of mitochondrial unfolded protein response results in telomere shortening in mouse oocytes and somatic cells" has been published in Aging. Caseinolytic ...