Counterfeiting the Family Jewels

Spradling, Allan; Fan, Chen-Ming
2010
CELL STEM CELL
DOI
10.1016/j.stem.2010.04.012
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.