How Does Germline Regenerate?

A concise primer that complicates a convenient truth in biology—the divide between germ and somatic cells—with far-reaching ethical and public policy ramifications. Scientists have long held that we have two kinds of cells—germ and soma. Make a change to germ cells—say using genome editing—and t...

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Main Author:	MacCord, Kate
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	University of Chicago Press 2024
Subjects:	germline, germ cell, regeneration, genome editing, cell lineage, Weismann Barrier, August Weismann, germ plasm theory
Online Access:	OCN: 1407317401
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