sex cells
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A breakthrough aspect of the new study is that for the first time the researchers harnessed the clonal sex cells to engineer offspring through a process they call "polyploid genome design."
From Science Daily • May 13, 2024
Gametes, often called sex cells, unite with other sex cells to produce new, unique organisms.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Doctors can freeze sperm from adult male patients, but boys do not start producing mature sex cells until they reach puberty.
From Scientific American • Mar. 21, 2019
They've harvested sex cells from the living rhinos and have made steps toward in vitro fertilization with southern white rhino surrogates.
From National Geographic • Mar. 2, 2018
Besides its action upon the sex cells and the brain cells, the internal secretion of the adrenal cortex acts upon the pigment cells of the skin, blunting their sensitiveness to light.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
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