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• n  the female reproductive cell; the female gamete

• FSH starts a few of these on a growth process that results in the production of one ovum (egg).
• Serious cloning science began in 1952, when researchers first reported transferring a tadpole nucleus into an ovum and producing identical tadpole copies.
• The "glass womb" is made from two glass slides, one with a scarcely visible depression containing a ripe ovum.

• egg cell

News & Articles

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• Enterprises warned BYOD is here to stay
  Global industry analyst Ovum has revealed the results of its 2013 BYOX (Bring Your Own Anything) employee survey which reveals that 70 percent of employees use their own devices to access corporate data. Launching the research at the start of the BYOX World Forum today in London, Ovum revealed that BYOD shows no signs of going away. More to the point it will continue whether the IT department ...
  June 6, 2013 - BetaNews
• Survey finds many enterprise users are sneaking their own phones into work
  While bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies have made big strides over the past few years, it seems that there’s a sizable contingent of companies that are still reluctant to let their worker use their personal phones for work. ZDNet points us to a new survey from Ovum showing that just over a third of employees who bring their smartphones to use at work do so without the consent of their IT ...
  June 6, 2013 - BGR News via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Alan Guttmacher in Dakota Voice
  In his 1933 book Life in the Making, Guttmacher wrote: "We of today know that man is born of sexual union; that he starts life as an embryo within the body of the female; and that the embryo is formed from the fusion of two single cells, the ovum...
• Henry Mansell in Connecticut Post
  In these cases, the objective of administering Plan B would be to impede the implantation of a fertilized ovum and this is abortion, because human life begins at conception,Mansell said. "In these cases, Catholic hospitals cannot...
• Kris Aquino in Inquirer.net
  Kris, who was an out-patient in a Makati hospital, told the Inquirer via SMS on Tuesday morning: "Seven and half weeks of pregnancy ended in miscarriage because my gestational sac has collapsed and the ovum is blighted."