BOSTON - A pair of achievements in the laboratory offer new tools for better understanding how gametes (reproductive cells) form, and may offer insights to help scientists "reprogram" adult cells to ...

When first reported 4 years ago, gametogenesis from embryonic stem (ES) cells promised an accessible in vitro model to facilitate molecular analysis of the germ lineage. Formation of primordial germ ...

Scientists from Nagoya University, Yokohama City University and Chubu University have developed a system which enables the live imaging of the formation of the female gamete in plants. In flowering ...