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. 2008 Feb 22;132(4):559-62.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.02.003.

Germ cells are forever

Ryan M Cinalli  1 , Prashanth Rangan, Ruth Lehmann
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Germ cells are forever

Ryan M Cinalli et al. Cell. .
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Abstract

Germ cells are the only cell type capable of generating an entirely new organism. In order to execute germline-specific functions and to retain the capacity for totipotency, germ cells repress somatic differentiation, interact with a specialized microenvironment, and use germline-specific networks of RNA regulation.

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