Why does making new egg cells require so much cell death?

Thursday, July 19, 2018 - 14:10 in Biology & Nature

A highly detailed study of how the roundworm C. elegans forms oocytes suggests that the egg-making process leads to the formation and subsequent destruction of cells with an extra nucleus, but that some cellular materials are recycled into new eggs.

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