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A unique arrangement for egg cell division

Using a powerful microscope, researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have now revealed how the molecular machinery functions that is responsible for chromosome reduction of egg cells in mice. In the current issue of Cell they report the assembly of this machinery, which is very different from what happens in all other cells in the body. The process is likely conserved across species, and the new insights might help shed light on defects occurring in human egg cell development.

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