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NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell Scientists are creating the most comprehensive map ever of genetic changes ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

In addition, germ cells require a specialized environment, or niche, provided by the supporting somatic cells in which to differentiate.