How to Use oocyte in a Sentence

oocyte

noun

• The fusion of a normal oocyte and three sperm (from one or more males).
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2010
• Wolf centers have collected semen and female oocytes from ovaries for about 25 years to preserve their genomes.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 30 Dec. 2019
• In the ovary, the manipulated cell developed into an egg cell, or oocyte.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2023
• Some eggs don't survive the freezing process because intercellular ice crystals emerge, which can be damaging to the oocytes (a cell in the ovary).
  — Mallory Schlossberg, Redbook, 22 Feb. 2017
• To carry out the freeze-drying process, Wakayama’s team harvested support cells known as cumulus cells from around the oocyte of female black-furred mice.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 8 July 2022
• With just two living sources of oocytes and semen stored from five males, researchers would have to reboot an entire subspecies from a mere seven animals.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2018
• Once inside, proteins within the sperm cell’s head prompt the oocyte to finish maturing and to release chemicals that harden the outer shell of the egg, preventing other sperm from barging in.
  — Randi Hutter Epstein, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• Sperm injection into a human oocyte, or immature egg cell.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2016
• But according to Cryotec's release, their technology cools faster, making it harder for those ice crystals to damage the oocytes.
  — Mallory Schlossberg, Redbook, 22 Feb. 2017
• Because of the progressive decline in the quality of a woman's oocytes (eggs) over time, there isn't a way to naturally extend the biological clock.
  — Brennan Peterson, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
• At age 35, Sun underwent oocyte cryopreservation, or egg freezing, yielding three to four eggs each cycle.
  — Courtney Vinopal, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2022
• The nurse cells synthesize RNA molecules that are ultimately deposited into the oocyte.
  — Discover Magazine, 15 May 2013
• The news comes just weeks after a team of veterinarians achieved another milestone by harvesting 10 oocytes from the last two remaining female northern white rhinos living in Kenya.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa, 11 Sep. 2019
• When the primordia start maturing into oocytes or testes, head-formation genes (different from the Hox genes), which are also responsible for forming a head in other creatures, become active in the middle of the stock body.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023
• The egg freezing process, otherwise medically known as mature oocyte cryopreservation, is a step that some women prefer to take to prepare for family planning down the road.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 21 Dec. 2023
• But during that cycle, only one dominant follicle matures completely to release the oocyte contained within it.
  — Katherine Kornei, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2016
• The procedure, known as mature oocyte cryopreservation, has helped many people potentially expand their timeline for having kids.
  — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 15 May 2021
• Su and her colleagues were able to characterize the RNA into five distinct genetic profiles or time periods of embryonic development: the oocyte or egg, zygote or fertilized egg, cleavage, morula and blastocyst stages.
  — Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 17 Jan. 2024
• Ultimately one dominant follicle releases an oocyte, or immature egg cell.
  — Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024