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

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

The Centers for Disease Control and National Institutes of Health report that the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes COVID-19 can live on plastic and stainless steel for up to three days and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...