1 1] California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Berkeley, CA 94720-3370, USA [2] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Berkeley, CA 94720-3370, USA [3] University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3370, USA.
In a recent paper in Nature, Ermolaeva et al. uncover a systemic response to DNA damage in germ cells that protects somatic tissues, providing mechanistic insight into the bidirectional communication between germ line and soma.