Design Requirements and Stem Cell Cycling 7-25-2015 by Paul Giem
Channel: ItIsAboutGod
Date: 26/07/2015

A recent paper claims that stem cells in C. elegans gonads are cycled at a rate that is essentially optimal for minimizing the accumulation of mutations. The idea that stem cells experimentally match optimal design requirements has interesting implications, as does the idea that it is optimal to minimize mutations.

Chiang, M. et al. 2015. Control of C. elegans germline stem cell cycling speed meets requirements of design to minimize mutation accumulation. BMCBiology 13:51. Available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/13/51/abstract

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