In her new book "The Stronger Sex," science journalist Starre Vartan dispels myths and misconceptions about the female body.

A painful and unexpected moment unfolds after getting pricked by a sea urchin while exploring the ocean.

Another possibility involves chromosome doubling within the unfertilized egg. These mechanisms result in offspring that are highly homozygous—meaning they have identical alleles for most genes—but not ...

Jennifer Lannon, co-founder of Freeze.Health, a website for comparing fertility clinic prices, and Lesley Stahl discussed the high costs for women to freeze their eggs without insurance coverage.

Today, I caught my favorite food in the world. Sea urchin, also known as "uni," is the true embodiment of the flavor of the ocean. Uni is *technically* the sea urchin's genitals, but it tastes ...

Structure of the sulfated alpha-L-fucan from the egg jelly coat of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus franciscanus: patterns of preferential 2-O- and 4-O-sulfation determine sperm cell recognition.

About this article Cite this article FERNLUND, P., JOSEFSSON, L. Purification and Characterization of Ribonuclease from Unfertilized Eggs of the Sea Urchin, Psammechinus miliaris.

Extremely long-lived proteins in the ovary may keep egg cells healthy and preserve fertility for a long time. In the mouse egg cell shown here, the chromosomes are stained magenta and the ...

A sea-borne pandemic that wiped out sea urchin populations in the Red Sea has spread and is taking out the species in parts of the Indian Ocean and could go global, scientists in Israel say.

Sea urchins made to order: Scripps scientists make transgenic breakthrough Transgenic sea urchins are fluoresced to make it easier for researchers to track cell movement.

That the fertilization process may not be indispensable for development was also supported by Jacq Loeb’s discovery concerning artificial parthenogenesis in which unfertilized sea urchin eggs without ...

Microscopic time-lapse of cell shape changes in ascidian oocytes after fertilization: From an unfertilized egg to contraction pole initiation to contraction pole formation to contraction pole ...