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.

    6–9 minutes
    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.

    4–7 minutes
  • 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.

    3–5 minutes