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SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITY. "Since the genetic information contained within germ cells is passed from generation to generation, the germ line is often referred to as immortal. Therefore, it is possible that germ cells possess unique strategies to protect and transmit the genetic information contained within them indefinitely." https://lnkd.in/dsBeTUt View in LinkedIn

CELLULAR GATEWAY TO THE FUTURE. "Germline stem cells (GSCs) sustain gamete production, both oogenesis (egg production) and spermatogenesis (sperm production), in many organisms." https://lnkd.in/dsBeTUt View in LinkedIn

MAZE TESTS. “The ability to traverse a maze is a standard test of intelligence and behavior in animals: maze learning has been used for many years in psychology to test the intellectual abilities of small mammals and other animals.” https://ukacc.group.shef.ac.uk/proceedings/control2008/papers/p246.pdf View in LinkedIn

GENE FUNNEL BETWEEN GENERATIONS. "Germ cells are highly specialized cells that form gametes, and they are the only cells within an organism that contribute genes to offspring." https://lnkd.in/dsBeTUt View in LinkedIn

BIO-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. “Maze traversal in Physarum can be modeled as a simple decision tree, optimized by ant algorithmics. This provides a simple explanation for apparently anomalous information processing by a single-celled organism. The mechanism can be viewed as a biological implementation of straightforward artificial intelligence techniques.” https://ukacc.group.shef.ac.uk/proceedings/control2008/papers/p246.pdf View in LinkedIn

MAINSTREAM VIEW. "The germ line is the one component of the organism that may aspire to immortality and its development and transmission represent the most important tasks undertaken by a multi-cellular organism." https://lnkd.in/g6Q36vi View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE is the last of two weekends considering the curious mind of the slime mold, who have no brain and no nervous system. Like trained platyhelminthes fed to their untrained companions, there is evidence of memory traces in fused slime molds. Some undetermined chemical that carries very specific and complex information. Enjoy this lovely creature. View in LinkedIn

CONTRARIAN VIEW. "Thus, August Weismann may have been wrong not only because molecular turnover is inevitable in all cell lineages but because the alleged immortality of the germ plasm takes place only under conditions of periodic genetic recombination. By themselves gametes and the germ plasm are not an immortal lineage." (L. Haflick, contrarian). https://lnkd.in/esfPTAR View in LinkedIn

IMMORTAL DAMAGE? "It is proposed here that somatic stem cell maintenance mechanisms lead to preferential accumulation, rather than disposal, of damaged stem cells. On the other hand stringent selection in the germline renders this lineage seemingly immortal." https://lnkd.in/gNUQf4C View in LinkedIn

APPROXIMATE FIDELITY. "A closer approximation to fidelity is that each zygote in the lineage contains the same genetic information as does its precursors following fertilization. This is dubious because of the occurrence of mutations, one of the few universal properties of life." (L. Haflick, contrarian). https://lnkd.in/esfPTAR View in LinkedIn