Using rooster testes to learn how the body fights viruses
Thursday, April 27, 2017 - 10:32
in Biology & Nature
Our bodies are constantly under siege by foreign invaders; viruses, bacteria and parasites that want to infiltrate our cells. A new study in the journal eLife sheds light on how germ cells - sperm and egg - protect themselves from these attackers so that they can pass accurate genetic information to the next generation.