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And the Oskar goes to: Germ-soma differentiation in insects (Ep 54)
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And the Oskar goes to: Germ-soma differentiation in insects (Ep 54)

What is a germ cell and why do animals separate germ and soma (body) cells at all?

What molecules determine whether cells become germ or soma, and are some such mechanisms products of horizontal gene transfer?

On this episode of Big Biology, we talk with Cassandra Extavour, an evolutionary developmental biologist at Harvard who studies the how's and why's of germ cell differentiation in insects. Recently, Cassandra's lab has been worki…

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