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How egg cells handle their cellular rubbish
![ELVAs (magenta) pictured inside a mouse oocyte using fluorescent dyes.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/media.nature.com/w767/magazine-assets/d41586-024-00498-7/d41586-024-00498-7_26759296.jpg)
A mouse oocyte (green) includes a structure (magenta) that houses damaged proteins and cellular machinery to recycle those proteins. Credit: Gabriele Zaffagnini/Centro de Regulación Genómica (CC BY)
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Nature 626, 931 (2024)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00498-7
References
Zaffagnini, G. et al. Cell https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.01.031 (2024).