Methods of enucleating an avian oocyte or zygote using...

Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and – Method of making a transgenic nonhuman animal – Via microinjection of a nucleus into an embryo – egg cell – or...

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C435S325000, C435S349000

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ABSTRACT:
The invention includes methods of enucleating avian eggs comprising visualizing internal structure of an avian egg utilizing TPLSM and ablating the nucleus of the egg by near-infrared light.

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