What are germ cell and sex cord stromal cells? Germ cells and sex cord stromal cells form when a fetus (baby) is developing. A fetus is made from a sperm cell and an egg cell. Germ cell tumors (GCTs) ...

After a flurry of cell divisions from the starting “germ cell” (i.e. united egg and sperm), somatic ... the transcription factors whose activities are unlocked following loss of DREAM function. To ...

Two weeks after a human egg is fertilized, primordial germ cells (PGCs), which develop into sperm and eggs, are formed. In six to 10 weeks after fertilization, PGCs differentiate into pro ...

Tumor suppressor genes act as “brakes” to stop cells before they can travel down the road to cancer. A loss of function mutation ... by either somatic or germ-line mutations.