Sentence examples for of a human egg from inspiring English sources

1968 Sir Robert Edwards achieves fertilisation of a human egg in the laboratory.

In 1938 she was hired as a researcher by Dr. John Rock, a prominent Boston obstetrician-gynecologist, to try fertilization of a human egg in the laboratory.

In its experiment, the company replaced the genetic material of a human egg with that from adult cells, in this case either skin cells or cumulus cells, which are cells that cling to human eggs and that might be more amenable than skin cells for cloning.

All told, the devices are roughly the size of a human egg cell.

Behind the mounted skeletons are three rear projection screens upon which an elegant computer animated video depicts the development of a human, taking us from the fertilization of a human egg by a sperm cell through successive stages of development of an embryo.

Fertilization is defined as the union of a human egg and sperm.

Then, Edwards and his partner, the surgeon Patrick Steptoe, pulled off the delicate task of fertilizing a human egg outside the body, coaxing it into a multicelled embryo and transferring it to a woman's womb, where it implanted.

Their attempts to use a standard cloning approach -- inserting the genetic material from skin cells of an adult into a human egg whose nucleus had been removed -- produced not a single embryo.

Their goal was to produce cells that would be compatible with the person who was the source of DNA inserted into a human egg.

By introducing the DNA of an adult human cell into a human egg whose nucleus has been removed, the resulting hybrid cell can be induced to behave like a fertilized egg.

That is one hundred times larger than most bacteria and three times as large as a human egg cell, one of the largest cells in our bodies.