Mature egg cells, or oocytes, are essential for fertilization in assisted reproductive technologies. However, some 'denuded' ...

Stem cell plasticity A fertilized egg cell is totipotent and can produce both all the ... declines as the degree of specialization increases. A unipotent stem cell can develop into only one type of ...

A research team from Japan says it has developed a new egg maturation technique that may improve in vitro fertilization (IVF) ...