Unsolved Problems in Cell Biology: Germline Immortality

True mysteries often lie in something that we take for granted. One such mystery in biology that remains almost entirely unaddressed is germline immortality. Each of us, as a multicellular organism, was once two germ cells (one from our mother, the other from our father), each of which was once two germ cells in our…

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