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Researchers compared oocytes, or unfertilized egg cells, from a control group with a group of patients who tested positive for tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the psychoactive chemical in marijuana that causes a high.
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Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
Marijuana may damage oocytes — unfertilized eggs in female ovaries — in ways researchers worry may lead to infertility, miscarriage and possible genetic defects in babies, new research has found.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
When immature eggs—known as oocytes, which are eggs that have not yet fully developed to the stage where they can be fertilized—were exposed to THC at levels similar to those detected in patients, researchers observed more frequent chromosome errors.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Also, the researchers couldn’t trace each affected pup back to its exact oocyte (precursor to an egg) donor because eggs were pooled.
—New Atlas, 16 Aug. 2025
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Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
Marijuana may damage oocytes — unfertilized eggs in female ovaries — in ways researchers worry may lead to infertility, miscarriage and possible genetic defects in babies, new research has found.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
When immature eggs—known as oocytes, which are eggs that have not yet fully developed to the stage where they can be fertilized—were exposed to THC at levels similar to those detected in patients, researchers observed more frequent chromosome errors.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Also, the researchers couldn’t trace each affected pup back to its exact oocyte (precursor to an egg) donor because eggs were pooled.
—New Atlas, 16 Aug. 2025
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“Oocyte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oocyte. Accessed 23 Sep. 2025.
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oocyte
noun
oo·cyte
ˈō-ə-ˌsīt 
: an egg before maturation : a female gametocyte
called also ovocyte
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