From the somatic cell to the germ cell Date: June 8, 2017 Source: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Summary: A regulatory pathway that changes the way cells divide in plants has been discovered ...

An international scientific consortium including the Freiburg plant biologist Prof. Dr. Thomas Laux has discovered a regulatory pathway that turns plants' ordinary somatic cells into germ cells ...

Germ cells are highly specialized cells that form gametes, and they are the only cells within an organism that contribute genes to offspring. Germline stem cells (GSCs) sustain gamete production ...

We now know that in the absence of the protective mechanism somatic cells under the influence of germ cells do not transcribe well and die", says Casanova. Source: ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

They only truly thrived, however, once they evolved somatic cells that bore the brunt of the dirty work, along side germ cells that transmitted a "clean" genome to the next generation.

Background: Germ cell tumors (GCT) with a malignant somatic component (MSC) represent an uncommon variant of what is typically a curable neoplasm. Histologic subtypes of the somatic component vary ...

We also found that STAT92E expression in male germ cells is dependent on their association with the somatic gonad. STAT92E was not detected in germ cells that were migrating to the gonad (), but ...

For example, follicle cells, i.e., somatic cells surrounding oocytes, interact directly with female germ cells on their apical side and contribute to egg production.

Embryos and germ cells are commonly stored at ultra-low temperatures in liquid nitrogen. ... “We show that freeze-dried somatic cells can produce healthy, fertile clones, ...

Background: TGCT is a prototype stem-cell malignancy recapitulating the ontogeny of solid tumors. We studied the roles of differentiation versus dedifferentiation in a bona fide well-differentiated ...