[PatrickHenry]

Everybody be nice.

[PatrickHenry]

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[Mikey_1962]

Maybe MSU can use this to make another Charles Rogers/sarc

[Red Badger]

I love eggs,

From my head down to my legs...........

[Integrityrocks]

"Everybody be nice."

Dang...

[tallhappy]

Great stuff. What's interesting about mammalian oocytes and then fertilized eggs is that these sort of analyses turn up a failr amount of sequences that are species specific -- ie they don't have homologs in other species. This includes non-homologous genes even between rat and mouse, for example. Usually non-conserved sequences between mouse and human will have a rat homolog. But in these cells related to reproduction there are sequences simply not found in any other species.

Also, a large number of non-gene sequences (eg transcripts of repeat elements) are seen.

There are a lot of mysteries and the title of this is a misnomer. Biology is more mysterious than ever now because we know so much more which tells us so much we don't know.

A few years ago we wouldn't have known enough to know what we don't know.

And as far as this: Everybody be nice.

That always seems like an actual challenge or invitation to trade insults.

It's smarmy and rude.

[stripes1776]

The human egg’s ability to transform into a new life, or into new cells that may someday save lives, is well documented.

What is well documented are untested claims that embryonic stem cells may provide new therapies for various diseases.

The identification opens the way to understanding these genes’ functions, which may lead to solving problems from infertility to degenerative diseases.

The key word here again is may. But nobody knows for sure.

[curiosity]

Combined with technology, the unfertilized egg might be coaxed to produce other specific cells, including stem cells

This is great news!

[martin_fierro]

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[HeartlandOfAmerica]

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Thanks mightily :)

[Young Werther]

What? No Yolks!

[VadeRetro]

Everybody be nice.

Oh, you bwute! You bwute! Imagine my little fists pummeling your smarmy, wude chest.

[ToryHeartland]

From the article:

“There are thousands of genes that are redundant. We found about one in a thousand genes that are unique to the eggs – and some of them, they don’t have a known function yet,” Cibelli said. “Now we can clone these genes and put them into cells and see if they may have a role in the creation of stem cells – without fertilization or destruction of human embryos.”

All very intriguing, and promising line of inquiry -- hope it proves frutiful!

[b_sharp]

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