Germ Cells Get by with a Little Cannibalistic Help from Their Friends

Publication date: 19 December 2016
Source:Developmental Cell, Volume 39, Issue 6
Author(s): Shefali Krishna, Michael Overholtzer
During development, primordial germ cells (PGCs) navigate a complex journey to generate the germline. In a recent paper in Nature Cell Biology, Nance and colleagues (Abdu et al., 2016) have discovered an unexpected step along the way: PGCs get cut in half by endodermal cells.

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During development, primordial germ cells (PGCs) navigate a complex journey to generate the germline. In a recent paper in Nature Cell Biology, Nance and colleagues (Abdu et al., 2016) have discovered an unexpected step along the way: PGCs get cut in half by endodermal cells.


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