The Scientist : Growing up baby oocytes [2/8/2002]

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020802-02

2 August 2002

The ovaries of mammals contain many immature oocytes but their potential for use in in vitro fertilization has been limited because they fail to mature in vitro. In August 1 Nature Yayoi Obata and colleagues from Gunma University, Maebashi, Japan, show that under specific conditions the most primitive murine fetal oocytes can differentiate into competent oocytes with high efficiency (Nature 2002, 418:497-498).

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