Joel Richter and his colleagues have made some very interesting observations by studying Xenopus oocyte and embryonic development. They found that several mRNAs that were polyadenylated in the ...

As a result of my nuclear transfer experiments, speculation arose about the possibility of making human clones like the ones I had described for Xenopus ... which an egg or oocyte could reprogram ...

Brangwynne and Feric injected tiny plastic beads into the germinal vesicles—nuclei—of 1 millimeter oocytes from African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis). Beads of different radii moved differently within ...