Those germ cells that enter meiosis become oocytes, the source of future eggs. Consequently, females are born with a finite number of oocytes arrested in the first meiotic prophase. Within the ...

How is the same process responsible for genetic recombination and diversity also the cause of aneuploidy? Understanding the steps of meiosis is essential to learning how errors occur.

A research team led by Max Planck director Melina Schuh, head of the Department of Meiosis at the MPI for ... "We found that DNA repair slows down in aged oocytes," says Schuh.

and stars indicate clusters of oocytes devoid of hybridization signal. Unlike its DNA repair role in somatic cells, homologous recombination has a distinct role in meiosis in ensuring proper ...

Welcome to Mitosis vs. Meiosis. This half of the screen illustrates mitosis—the division of a cell's nucleus. Along with cytokinesis (the division of the rest of a cell), mitosis results in a ...

In 2009, she became a Group Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB). At the LMB, her group carried out the first studies of meiosis in live human oocytes and developed strategies for ...

Oocytes were treated with NCS and imaged following ... head of the Department of Meiosis at the MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences, has now compared young and aging egg cells in terms of their ...

A research team led by Max Planck director Melina Schuh, head of the Department of Meiosis at the MPI for Multidisciplinary ... “We found that DNA repair slows down in aged oocytes,” says Schuh. “As a ...