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Colossal has established a flock of Nicobar pigeons, the dodo’s closest living relative, which will act as donors for primordial germ cells that will be genetically edited to have dodo characteristics.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
These germ cells are specialized cells that produce an animal's reproductive cells.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
This, in turn, decreases the number of Sertoli and germ cells that rely on testosterone for growth.
—Matthew Wosnitzer, Verywell Health, 5 Jan. 2025
The five-year survival rates are broken down between the type of ovarian cancer, invasive epithelial, stromal or germ cell tumor, and also are sorted based on the stage of cancer, localized, regional and distant.
—Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2023
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First Known Use
1868, in the meaning defined above
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“Germ cell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/germ%20cell. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
germ cell
noun
: an egg or sperm cell or one of the cells from which they arise
Medical Definition
germ cell
noun
: an egg or sperm cell or one of their antecedent cells
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