1.   Although eggs contain some cholesterol and fat, they are also a wonderful source of protein.

2.   Before you make it, consider that unpasteurized eggs may contain a strain of salmonella bacteria that can make you sick.

3.   Eggs contain dietary cholesterol, which affects the type of serum cholesterol the body produces.

4.   In explaining that eggs contain nutrients that might reduce harmful serum cholesterol, called low-density lipoproteins, the column item misidentified the sort of cholesterol contained in eggs.

5.   That is because eggs contain structures called mitochondria, which are important in cell metabolism and also carry genetic material.

6.   The birds carry genes that make their eggs contain proteins that can treat disease.

7.   These eggs contain fluids that keep them from drying out, thus opening the way for the colonization of land by reptiles and mammals.

8.   Parts of two other sauropods previously were found in the Lourinha area, where last year archaeologists unearthed a nest of dinosaur eggs containing fossilized embryos.

9.   A mature egg contains only one set of each chromosome.

10.   Although the eggs would contain less vitamin A, the agency said, people generally get enough of the nutrient from other foods.