A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of #Multicellularity...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-multitalented-scientist-seeks-the-origins-of-multicellularity-20240221/
"We showed that in crickets, body #cells are induced to change into germ cells by signals from the surrounding tissues. That’s what happens in mice and other mammals, too, but it was thought to be a novel mechanism that appeared rarely in #evolution."
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