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. 2016 Apr 4;37(1):7-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.03.019.

Nursing the Follicles

Jesse T Chao  1 , Maho Niwa  2
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Nursing the Follicles

Jesse T Chao et al. Dev Cell. .
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In a recent issue of Science, Lei and Spradling (2016) uncover how germ cells differentiate into oocytes in mouse embryos. Mouse germ cells form cysts, in which sister cells nurse the developing oocyte by donating their organelles and cytoplasmic materials.

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