Glimpsing the birth of our earliest reproductive cells

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:21 in Biology & Nature

It has long been a mystery how the developing embryo designates those rare, precious cells destined to produce sperm and eggs -- enabling us to have offspring - since these primordial germ cells' existence is fleeting and hard to spot with the tools of biology.read more

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