PROBABLY many readers of the recent discussion on the transmission of acquired characters will regret that a more definite conclusion has not been arrived at. This is probably due to the fact that the ...

In vertebrates, primordial germ cells — the ancestors of germ cells — can arise from one of two species-specific processes: epigenesis (that is, from pluripotent cells through induction by somatic ...

Dr Andrew Johnson is speaking today (12 July) at the UK National Stem Cell Network annual conference. He and his team from the University of Nottingham have been using a Mexican aquatic salamander ...

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Caitjan Gainty runs the Wellcome-funded Healthy Scepticism project. Back in February 2019, when the pandemic was still far from most people thoughts, the Fox News programme Fox & Friends aired a ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 95, No. 19 (Sep. 15, 1998), pp. 11274-11278 (5 pages) In Drosophila, pole cells, the progenitors of the germ line, ...