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. 2010 May 7;6(5):405-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2010.04.012.

Counterfeiting the family jewels

Allan Spradling  1 , Chen-Ming Fan
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Counterfeiting the family jewels

Allan Spradling et al. Cell Stem Cell. .
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Abstract

In art and literature, originals are revered and copies frowned upon. But do men use germline stem cell copies to pass traits to their children? In Science, Nakagawa et al. (2010) show that new stem cell copies regularly arise in mouse testes by fragmentation of downstream germ cell clusters.

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