Sometimes on The Niche or while teaching students as a professor here at UC Davis School of Medicine, I’ve been asked: What is a teratoma? Not all tumors are created equal and some like teratomas are particularly unusual. Exactly what is a teratoma? Teratomas are germ cell tumors. What this means is that the cells that gave rise to the tumor in the first place were a powerful stem cell called a “germ cell”. Normally, germ cells make reproductive cells including sperm and eggs. ...Read More
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