Germline gene therapy and somatic gene therapy are two quite different proposals, and the legitimate concerns and risks of the former should not be used to stall progress on the latter.

The lambda chain seems to be encoded by two separate germ-line genes (a specificity region gene and a common region gene) which are expressed as a single, continuous polypeptide chain. Antibody ...

This valuable study reports the first characterization of the CG14545 gene in Drosophila melanogaster, which the authors name "Sakura." Acting during germline stem cell fate and differentiation, ...