#  Extavour Lab Discovers New View of Germ Cells 

 





April 19, 2016

 

 

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Postdoctoral Fellow, **Taro Nakamura** and **Cassandra Extavour's** newest [study in Development](http://dev.biologists.org/content/143/2/255) upends the historical view of maternal inheritance as the most common method for creating germ cells, and finds a number of animals use a cell-to-cell signaling mechanism to trigger the production of germ cells. [Full Story.](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/new-view-of-germ-cells/)



 

 

 



 

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