Eggs' quality control mechanism explained
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 12:10
in Biology & Nature
To protect the health of future generations, body keeps a careful watch on its precious and limited supply of eggs. That's done through a key quality control process in oocytes (the immature eggs), which ensures elimination of damaged cells before they reach maturity. In a new report in the February 18th Cell, a Cell Press publication, researchers have made progress in unravelling how a factor called p63 initiates the deathblow...