title: Oocyte Biology: Do the Wheels Fall Off with Age?
abstract: The impact of age on a woman's ability to produce normal eggs remains a great enigma of human biology. A new paper provides intriguing experimental evidence that age may cause a breakdown in the egg cell division machinery.
authors.affiliation: School of Molecular Biosciences and Center for Reproductive Biology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA. Electronic address: pathunt@vetmed.wsu.edu.
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hunt
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D048750:Cell Nucleus Division; D020090:Chromosome Segregation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008540:Meiosis; D051379:Mice; D008870:Microtubules; D009865:Oocytes