Bornstein was considering two titles for his film: "Kafka's Last Story," referring to Kafka's will, and "Kafka's Egg," referring, he said, to "an Easter egg, or the egg of Columbus".
This was then used to replace the nucleus removed from the egg of the first sheep.
"Boredom," he writes, "is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience".
Next, Dr. Edwards removed the DNA from the egg of another cow, leaving behind egg cytoplasm.
The female wasps lay one or two eggs inside the egg of the cabbage looper moth.
In both types, researchers begin by removing the nucleus from an unfertilized human egg to strip the egg of genetic material.
He's a prolific tweeter with updates including information about what he's having for breakfast (most recently it was the egg of the Sooty Turn bird).
The mitochondria are derived from the egg of the mother, and therefore these mutations are carried down the female line in perpetuity.
When, a couple of years ago, I first imagined putting a nucleus from one animal into the egg of another, I found the idea unsettling.
With a squeeze of her hand, a single human skin cell, with its unique payload of human DNA, plops into the egg of a creature that moos.
Having worked hard to scrape the egg of their faces after last year's general election, they would hate having to do the same again.
