Sentences with phrase «rare germ line»

It may not have made the lemur ill, but the retrovirus spread into the animal's testes (or perhaps its ovaries), and once there, it struck the jackpot: It slipped inside one of the rare germ line cells that produce sperm and eggs.

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For his part, Eric Lander from the Broad Institute said in a December 1 presentation at the summit that the need to employ germ line editing would remain very, very rare thanks to other already available reproductive technologies like in - vitro fertilization that could help most people.