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Posted on: Jun 14, '08

A HUMAN EGG

Have any of you ever seen a human egg;................................................read on

Human egg makes accidental debut on camera, (11 June 2008, From New Scientist Print Edition)

Look closely - this is history in the making. These are the clearest pictures ever taken of what is the starting point of every human life: ovulation occurring inside a woman's body. See the photos.

"The release of the oocyte from the ovary is a crucial event in human reproduction," says Jacques Donnez at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in Brussels, Belgium. "These pictures are clearly important to better understand the mechanism."

Observing ovulation in humans is extremely rare, and previous images have been fuzzy. Donnez captured the event by accident while preparing to carry out a partial hysterectomy on a 45-year-old woman. The release of an egg was considered a sudden, explosive event, but his pictures, to be published in Fertility and Sterility, show it taking place over a period of at least 15 minutes.

Shortly before the egg is released, enzymes break down the tissue in the mature follicle, a fluid-filled sac on the surface of the ovary that contains the egg. This prompts the formation of a reddish protrusion, and after a while a hole appears, from which the egg emerges, surrounded by support cells. It then enters a Fallopian tube, which carries it to the uterus.

While there are no immediate medical implications from the pictures, Darryl Russell, who researches reproductive health at the University of Adelaide in Australia, says they are remarkable: "In animals, even when we control hormone levels - allowing us to predict the time at which ovulation will occur - it is very rare to see it in progress."
(From issue 2660 of New Scientist magazine, 11 June 2008, page 13)

I found it interesting and felt bound to share it with you. The photographs are available at http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826604.200?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19826604.200 . All are welcome to view them. (There was some technical glitch and now these are not available at my zone. I regret the inconvenience)

My reaction was that of an awe ...............................................this might be half of of the great humans yet to be born in this century...................................................or it might just go waste.

I WOULD LOVE TO KOW WHAT YOU FEEL ON VIEWING THESE PICS IF ANYTHING..

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shakosh said:
Thank buddy for sharing

June 20, '08

sriangood said:
Final thanks…
I Thank all the visitors to this blog. I am grateful to the few (exactly 8 people as of 10;45 on june17,2008) who gave some feed back. Thank you all for sharing your opinion.
Some questions have been raised but I am not an expert on these matters …..so pl excuse.
.I thought that this may evoke much grater interest than it did…………..presumably not many people are interested.
I thank you all for bearing with me on these many blogs which have little entertainment value as per froppers standards

June 17, '08

sazzyme said:
i know u will kill me srianji..but here my take to this

yewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! gross!

but that was the childish me..

the matured one says-the marvel that the creator has done!!! surely HE must be a superior being??!!

June 16, '08

geetsudha said:
this is very interesting, but i hv x been able to c the pictures.

June 15, '08

notjustart said:
Thanks for sharing, this is an amazing post indeed!

June 15, '08

eternalessencefoever said:
Evolution...what abt the bad eggs, cracked eggs..pics wid this wld be awesome.
thns 4 sharin

June 15, '08

manisha_bhattacharya said:
Thanks srian, for sending me the link to the photos! I'm speechless!

June 15, '08

manisha_bhattacharya said:
Hey!! I can't see any little acorns in your photos!

June 14, '08

VintageWine48 said:
In the beginning there was the egg............ Sorry to say I couldn't find any visuals to make this more interesting.

June 14, '08

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