Sentences with phrase «reproductive cell precursors»
Her newest project, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, will look at the crucial time when malaria is transmitted — when reproductive cell precursors known as gametocytes develop.
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Even though the reproductive age for humans is around 15 — 45 years old, the precursor cells that go on to produce human eggs or sperm are formed much earlier, when the fertilized egg grows into a tiny ball of cells in the mother's womb.