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

You'd be looking for a single cell in a sea.  Needles in haystacks aint got nuttinn on that.

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Mega [Andreas Sturm] <masters...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

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I just came of the idea, that a women loses an egg cell around once a month.
Does anyone have a clue whether it is possible to kind of extract the cell and then have a look on it under the microscope?
I heared those cells are pretty big, so you could even see them with youre bare eye.

Given their size, couldn't you just let the red liquid through a filter, then the big egg cell stays above?

And, one second thought, are those cells still alive when out of body? I mean, they survive 5 days travelling to their destination, sitting there few days, and then are expelled. There won't be mechanism to induce apoptosis I think, because it dies anyway when out of body?

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