The female germline performs essential functions in fertility, endocrine health and the transmission of an individual's genetic and epigenetic information to the next generation. Women are born ...

disrupts oogenesis at multiple stages and predisposes the oocyte to aneuploidy. Trisomic and monosomic (aneuploid) embryos account for at least 10% of human pregnancies and, for women nearing the ...

In particular, they were looking for germ cells that can divide and mature into oocytes – or eggs – through a process known as oogenesis. In humans, mice and other mammals, oogenesis only ...