Re: [DIYbio] Re: Extract egg cells from "monthly" ? Possible? Ethical?

Just read through all again, and came to think of something related... Is it feasible to induce over-ovulation in a dog, and then harvest the cells in a diy manner?
Will it hurt the dog? Any side-effects?

And finally, if you had a micromanipulator (quite expensive), could you put human nucleus into dog egg cells to make human stem cells? Mitochondria will be dog mitochondria, but I guess that won't do harm.

Can you buy dog egg cells? Or frog egg cells (ok, inducing human nucleus into a frog egg cell would be yukky)?


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Cat Ferguson <carolinetaylorferguson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Andreas Sturm <masterstorm123@gmail.com> wrote:
Isn't it that the egg wanders from the ovary into the cervix during ovulation? And by menstruating it is excreted out off the body?

German wikipedia says that each ovulation yields 10-20 follicles (egg cells+accompanying cells). So 9 to 19 egg cells are useless and perhaps be excreted to? Discarded with urine?


...no. Guys. Funny as this has been to read, I think we all need a recap of basic biology.

One egg is released into the oviduct during ovulation, during which it is available briefly for fertilization. During menstruation the uterine lining, which had prepared for a fertilized egg to implant, is shed. The egg degrades, and it's not possible to recover it - and even if it is excreted rather than absorbed, it's no longer going to be fertile. Eggs are only viable 12-24 hours after being released.

IVF makes the ovaries start to develop a ton of extra eggs, which are then harvested by sticking a needle through the vagina and into the follicles (each follicle holds one egg). 

Urine is unrelated to the ovaries, as it comes out of the urethra. I know it's in the same neighborhood, but it doesn't seem that hard to keep them separate. 


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