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• n  an ancestor in the direct line

• The grunge progenitor? The acoustic country guy? Or the avant-gardist whose sonic violence can make instruments--and sometimes fans--cry out for mercy?.
• The progenitor of this misery was dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who in the 1960s aggressively promoted population growth, banning contraception and abortions for women with fewer .
• The filmmaker who uncaged Bosomania as a movie genre is part, and partial progenitor, of a breast-worshipping subculture (or bust-culture) that demands women carry treasure chests .

• primogenitor

News & Articles

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• Programming blood forming stem cells
  By transferring four genes into mouse fibroblast cells, researchers have produced cells that resemble hematopoietic stem cells, which produce millions of new blood cells in the human body every day. These findings provide a platform for future development of patient-specific stem/progenitor cells, and more differentiated blood products, for cell-replacement therapy.
  June 13, 2013 - Science Daily
• Mount Sinai Researchers Succeed in Programming Blood Forming Stem Cells
  By transferring four genes into mouse fibroblast cells, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have produced cells that resemble hematopoietic stem cells, which produce millions of new blood cells in the human body every day. These findings provide a platform for future development of patient-specific stem/progenitor cells, and more differentiated blood products, for cell ...
  June 13, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Bryan Sykes in BBC News
  An academic colleague made reference to Russian families who claimed a British progenitor, and, even though they could not speak a word of conversational English, were able to recite fragments of British nursery rhymes and Scottish songs,...
• Walker Percy in The Week Magazine
  Walker Percy wrote that Toole's protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly, was "without progenitor in any literature I know of-slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one."
• Peter Ackroyd in The Times
  It's often said that Edgar Allan Poe was the progenitor of science fiction, but I think Mary Shelley deserves that accolade more,Ackroyd says.