Newly identified small-RNA pathway defends genome against the enemy within
Sunday, March 16, 2014 - 18:34
in Biology & Nature
Reproductive cells, such as an egg and sperm, join to form stem cells that can mature into any tissue type. But how do reproductive cells arise? We humans are born with all of the reproductive cells that we will ever produce. But in plants things are very different. They first generate mature, adult cells and only later "reprogram" some of them to produce eggs and sperm.