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The advancement of science is a funny thing. We may know a lot about alpaca sex, but when it comes to how human babies are made, there are still gaps in our knowledge. Now, biologists at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Studies have filled in a big blank about one of the earliest phases of the reproductive cycle.
Most of the process of reproduction is fairly straightforward, and if you don't know the basics, you may be overdue for a very uncomfortable talk with your parents. But what happens before eggs begin their trek through the fallopian tubes has been mysterious, even to biologists. The eggs are tiny—only 0.
005 inches (0.12 millimeters) across—making them difficult to observe inside the body. Since they are released quickly from one of two ovaries (with no way to predict which), there has never been a clear view of an egg being released.
The Max Planck scientists devised a method to witness this stage, an advance that could one day result in new fertility treatments. Each month an #egg is ovulated from the #ovary, starting the journey of reproduction. But how does ovulation occur?ð¥ Our latest work in @NatureCellBio led by @LastChrisThomas and @Tabea_Marx, describes the control of #ovulation using live imaging.
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