They are formed in a woman's body before birth and have to be on standby for decades to possibly be fertilized one day. But ...

The use of human oocytes to carry out similar procedures has already been licensed by the HFEA 5, but the shortage of donated human oocytes 6 has prompted the search for an alternative, hence the ...

However, aside from their life-creating properties, oocytes are different from other cells due to their sheer size. While they vary immensely among species, the human egg cell is roughly 150 ...

The oocytes will reenter meiosis only when they are ovulated in response to hormones. Human females, for example, are born with hundreds of thousands of oocytes that remain arrested in the first ...

Oocyte cryopreservation is a suitable fertility preservation option for women who are not partnered, have ethical objections to cryopreserving embryos or wish to have complete reproductive autonomy.