Somatic mutations take place in non-reproductive cells. Many kinds of somatic mutations have no obvious effect on an organism, because genetically normal body cells are able to compensate for the ...

Consequently, all of the somatic cells in human females contain two ... In fact, sex determination can be very different between different organisms. For example, in the XX-XO system found in ...

In multicellular organisms, how do multiple cell types originate from ... After a flurry of cell divisions from the starting “germ cell” (i.e. united egg and sperm), somatic cells begin to exit the ...

and reproduction of organisms. While mitosis generates genetically identical daughter cells for somatic cell functions such as growth and repair, meiosis generates genetically diverse daughter ...

Therapeutic cloning, also known as embryo cloning or somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), involves creating ... the risk of developmental abnormalities in cloned organisms, and the moral status of ...

The finding points to a new source of genetic variation in coral that may hasten the rate at which these organisms evolve and adapt. “It’s the first report of somatic mutations being passed [via ...

A research team from the School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), in ...

We're all very complex organisms, made up of lots of different types of cells carrying out different jobs in our bodies; such as nerve cells, blood cells, fat cells and muscle cells. So ...

HKUMed used the ancient choanoflagellate SOX protein to create stem cells and implanted them into mice, successfully contributing to healthy mice. The ...