News tagged with sexual differentiation

Scientists make stunning inner space observations

Scientists using high-powered microscopes have made a stunning observation of the architecture within a cell – and identified for the first time how the architecture changes during the formation of gametes, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Biologists determine microRNA activity is suppressed in mouse ovum

Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania studying oocytes in mice, the immature egg cells necessary for sexual reproduction, have demonstrated an unusual behavior in microRNA, or miRNA, activity that may be the first ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Social class, gender and ethnic group determine adolescents' sexual-affective education

The social class, the gender and the ethnic group are three essential dimensions, not only in the social differentiation, but also in the affective sexual education of the adolescents, where it is necessary to take part in ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The story of X -- evolution of a sex chromosome

(PhysOrg.com) -- Move over, Y chromosome - it's time X got some attention. In the first evolutionary study of the chromosome associated with being female, University of California, Berkeley, biologist Doris ...

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The success of Homo sapiens may be due to spatial abilities

While the disappearance of Neanderthals remains a mystery, paleoanthropologists have an increasing understanding of what allowed their younger cousins, Homo sapiens, to conquer the planet. According to Ariane ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Single gene mutation can sweep through bacterial population, opening the door for the concept of 'species'

Bacteria are the most populous organisms on the planet. They thrive in almost every known environment, adapting to different habitats by means of genetic variations that provide the capabilities essential ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New basal beaked ornithurine bird found from the lower cretaceous of Western Liaoning, China

Based on a well-preserved specimen from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation in Jianchang, western Liaoning, China, Paleontologists of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Education research shows LGBTQ-identified students at higher risk than straight-identified students

New research findings reported in the October 2011 issue of Educational Researcher highlight differences between LGBTQ- and straight-identified youth in health outcomes and educational equity. The peer-reviewed scholarly ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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Study suggests methylation and gene sequence co-evolve in human-chimp evolutionary divergence

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and the University of Southern California (USC) today published the first quantitative evidence supporting the notion that the genome-wide "bookmarking" of DNA with methyl ...

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Chimp, bonobo study sheds light on the social brain

It's been a puzzle why our two closest living primate relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, have widely different social traits, despite belonging to the same genus. Now, a comparative analysis of their brains shows neuroanatomical ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers: Sexually active teens need confidential health care

After reviewing existing research regarding the common practices of health care providers who see adolescent patients across the country, Rebecca Allen, MD, MPH, a clinician and researcher at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An ancestral link between genetic and environmental sex determination

Researchers from Osaka University and the National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan, have found a highly significant connection between the molecular mechanisms underlying genetic and environmental sex determination. The ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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A more definitive test for a common sexually transmitted infection

A study from the microbiology lab at Rhode Island Hospital has found that a new test may be more accurate in identifying a common sexually transmitted infection (STI), Trichamonos vaginalis (TV). The researchers also noted ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Epilepsy-linked memory losss worries more patients than doctors

Patients with epilepsy worry more than their physicians do about the patients' potential memory loss accompanying their seizure disorder, according to a recent study.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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