Many people think they live cleanly, but experts reveal the surprising places where germs thrive — and how simple habits can ...

Discover seven foods with more vitamin E than almonds, including plant oils and sunflower seeds, plus tips on how to add them ...

The notion of a Gay Germ—homosexuality transmitted as some sort of infection—probably horrifies many mainstream intellectuals unfamiliar with the details of modern evolutionary biology. Therefore, it ...

Germs are all over common restaurant surfaces, but this one item tops them all. Here's how to protect yourself from getting sick.

Caitjan Gainty runs the Wellcome-funded Healthy Scepticism project. Back in February 2019, when the pandemic was still far from most people thoughts, the Fox News programme Fox & Friends aired a ...

Germ cells are specialized cells that are responsible for transmitting the genome of an individual organism to its offspring. The defining characteristic of the germ cells is their ability to undergo ...

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) ...

What are germ cell tumours? Germ cell tumours develop from germ cells. These are the cells in the body that develop into sperm and eggs. Germ cell tumours most often develop in the ovary or testicle ...

A germ-phobic friend who actually times her co-workers’ bathroom breaks to see if they’ve washed their hands properly recently sent me this riveting holiday health question: “If a colleague with ...

August Weismann proposed that embryonic cells that inherit preformed germ plasm acquire germ cell fate while the rest become somatic cells 1, which is the case in some organisms 2,3,4. In mice, ...

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