How Does Germline Regenerate?

by Kate MacCord

A concise primer that complicates a convenient truth in biology--the divide between germ and somatic cells--with far-reaching ethical and public policy ramifications.

Scientists have long held that we have two kinds of cells--germ and soma. Make a change to germ cells--say using genome editing--and that change will appear in the cells of future generations. Somatic cells are "safe" after such tampering; modify your skin cells, and your...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226830497
• ISBN13: 9780226830490
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 168 Pages