image: Microscopic images of egg cells retrieved from a family with inherited female infertility. All of the cells died within 30 hours after fertilization with sperm (bottom row). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Mar. 27, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Q. Sang at Fudan University in Shanghai, China; and colleagues was titled, "A pannexin 1 channelopathy causes human oocyte death." view more
Credit: Q. Sang<i> et al., Science Translational Medicine </i>(2019)