Tag: Germ cells

  • Science & Tech

    Horizontal helper

    Cassandra Extavour and Leo Blondel provide the strongest suggestive evidence yet that at least part of a specific gene came from bacterial genomes.

    Cassandra Extavour.
  • Health

    New view of germ cells

    Cassandra Extavour is the author of a new study that points to a different mechanism as an ancestral process for specifying germ cells.

  • Health

    Solving a biological mystery

    A team of Harvard researchers has shown that insects like crickets possess a variation of a gene — called oskar — that is critical to the production of germ cells in “higher” insects. That discovery suggests that the oskar gene emerged far earlier in insect evolution than researchers previously believed.