ELVAs pictured under a microscope. The ‘superorganelle’ roams the cytoplasm, capturing and holding onto toxic protein aggregates to protect oocytes from their toxic effects. Oocytes are immature egg ...

Oocytes are immature egg cells that develop in almost all female mammals before birth. The propagation of future generations depends on this finite reserve of cells surviving for many years without ...

Studying the chemo-mechanical waves of starfish oocytes, scientists have used optogenetics to control how a single cell moves during its earliest stage of development. The waves play “a key role in ...

Extracellular vesicles have been engineered as enhanced drug vehicles, and have emerged as therapeutic agents showing promising results across various pathological conditions. However, they also play ...