August Weismann's germ plasm theory of the late 19th century posited that only germ cells, e.g., sperm and egg cells in animals or pollen and ovule cells in plants, transmit genetic information to the ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center and Human Genome Sequencing Center investigated the extent to which forms of genetic variation called germline or ...

The study revealed unexpected and sex-specific effects of germline regulation on longevity and somatic repair in vertebrates. Contrary to classical evolutionary theories, it turns out that changing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An analysis of germline susceptibility to renal cell carcinoma revealed considerable ...

A subset of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) cases occur because of a hereditary predisposition. However, the prevalence and profiling of germline alterations in RCC have not been fully characterized.

The Drosophila germline stem cell (GSC) niche represents a finely balanced microenvironment where complex intercellular signals converge to regulate stem cell maintenance, differentiation and tissue ...

Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly genetically identical cells. Depending on the organism, these cells arrange ...

Stem cells are the body's ultimate shape-shifters, sustaining tissues by balancing two competing demands: maintaining their ...

Genetic susceptibility to nonsyndromic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) remains poorly understood, especially for different histological subtypes, as does variations in genetic predisposition in different ...