Uploaded December 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
How do oocytes (eggs) protect their contents for decades in the body, so that they can still make a healthy organism after fertilization? In this video, Elvan Boke tells you about the Balbiani body, a part of the egg that may be key to protecting its contents for the future. This video is an abstract for her recent publication in the journal Cell, "Amyloid-like self-assembly of a cellular compartment." cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(16)30859-5
Written, drawn, and narrated by Elvan Boke. Edited by Lisa Dennison.
See the post on sciencesketches.org: sciencesketches.org/single-post/2016/12/01/Immature-egg-cells-use-functional-amyloids-to-bundle-contents
This work was a collaboration between the lab of Tim Mitchison at Harvard and the lab of Tony Hyman at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. Elvan carried out this work as a postdoc in the Mitchison lab, and she is now starting her own lab at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona.
How do oocytes (eggs) protect their contents for decades in the body, so that they can still make a healthy organism after fertilization? In this video, Elvan Boke tells you about the Balbiani body, a part of the egg that may be key to protecting its contents for the future. This video is an abstract for her recent publication in the journal Cell, "Amyloid-like self-assembly of a cellular compartment." cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(16)30859-5
Written, drawn, and narrated by Elvan Boke. Edited by Lisa Dennison.
See the post on sciencesketches.org: sciencesketches.org/single-post/2016/12/01/Immature-egg-cells-use-functional-amyloids-to-bundle-contents
This work was a collaboration between the lab of Tim Mitchison at Harvard and the lab of Tony Hyman at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. Elvan carried out this work as a postdoc in the Mitchison lab, and she is now starting her own lab at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona.
