sex cells
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In a proof-of-principle study conducted in mice over six years, the team showed that interrupting a key step in meiosis, the process that produces sex cells, can temporarily halt sperm production without causing lasting harm.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 7, 2026
The purpose, or ergon, of both the acorn and the oak tree are present in the zygote, the cell that forms when male and female sex cells combine.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Doctors can freeze sperm from adult male patients, but boys do not start producing mature sex cells until they reach puberty.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 21, 2019
They've harvested sex cells from the living rhinos and have made steps toward in vitro fertilization with southern white rhino surrogates.
From National Geographic ● Mar. 2, 2018
But scattered through the substance of the gland, between these lymphocytes, like the interstitial cells of the sex glands placed between the sex cells, are peculiarly staining cells in whorls.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
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