Your immune system is often able to fend off pathogens it’s never seen before. But defending your body against all of them ...

The path of primordial germ cells illustrates the complexities of imprinted DNA, which contains epigenetic marks that turn on and off when necessary. Differences between the maternal and paternal ...

In a study published in Science Advances, researchers from Osaka University have discovered for the first time that germ cells, the cells that develop into eggs in females and sperm in males, drive ...

Cannabis exposure leads to genetic damage and accelerated aging, raising concerns about its transgenerational health effects ...

What are germ cell and sex cord stromal cells? Germ cells and sex cord stromal cells form when a fetus (baby) is developing. A fetus is made from a sperm cell and an egg cell. Germ cell tumors (GCTs) ...

Two weeks after a human egg is fertilized, primordial germ cells (PGCs), which develop into sperm and eggs, are formed. In six to 10 weeks after fertilization, PGCs differentiate into pro ...

such as the differing types of blood system cells. A second source is embryonic germ cells that are derived from the primordial reproductive tissues of aborted early fetuses. These are the cells ...

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 20, No. 2, 1901 A Study of the Chromosomes of the Germ C... A Study of the Chromosomes of the Germ Cells of Metazoa This is the metadata section ...