: a gamete (such as an egg or sperm cell) or one of its antecedent cells
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Cormac announced in a July 2022 Instagram post that he'd been diagnosed with stage three germ cell cancer in November 2021.—Becca Longmire, People.com, 19 May 2025 To get around that, the scientists first tap into the fertilized egg of a pink pigeon and extract what are known as primordial germ cells (PGCs)—the cells that eventually become sperm and egg.—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025 The increase was found in certain types of cancer including leukemias, lymphomas, brain tumors, hepatic tumors, and gonadal germ cell tumors, according to the study.—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2025 The company's Avian Genomics Group is close to achieving primordial germ cells in pigeons, which would allow genetic testing of dodo characteristics in pigeons – similar to the mouse-mammoth experiments.—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for germ cell
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