How Does Germline Regenerate?A concise primer that complicates a convenient truth in biologythe divide between germ and somatic cellswith far reaching ethical and public policy ramifications. Scientists have long held that we have two kinds of cellsgerm and soma. Make a change to germ cellssay using genome editingand that change will appear in the cells of future generations. Somatic cells are safe after such tampering; modify your skin cells, and your future childrens skin cells