Sentences with phrase «generates eggs and sperm»

Even after the principles of epigenetics came to light, it was believed that methylation marks and other epigenetic changes to a parent's DNA were lost during the process of cell division that generates eggs and sperm and that only the gene sequence remained.

Not exact matches

If so, eggs and sperm from the same mouse could be generated and used for fertilization, producing something never seen before: a mouse created by self - fertilization.

And it also suggested that men's skin cells could be used to create eggs, and that sperm could be generated from women's celAnd it also suggested that men's skin cells could be used to create eggs, and that sperm could be generated from women's celand that sperm could be generated from women's cells.

Before too long it will probably be possible to use stem cells to generate sperm and eggs, with obvious benefits for assisted reproduction — even for a lone survivor like Lonesome George.

The laboratories of CSHL Professors Gregory J. Hannon and Leemor Joshua - Tor, both Investigators of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, joined forces to scrutinize the process by which a class of genome defenders called PIWI - interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are generated in cells of the germline — eggs and sperm that bear an organism's genetic inheritance and transmit this information to offspring.

De novo mutations are so called because they are generated during the formation of eggs and sperm, they can be passed to offspring but are not seen in the parents.