An unknown function that regulates how stem cells produce different types of cells in different parts of the nervous system has been discovered by Stefan Thor, professor of Developmental Biology, and graduate students Daniel ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 11, 2010
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What if we could inherit more than our parents' genes? What if we could inherit the ability to turn genes on and off?
Evolution
Aug 11, 2022
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Why do human look like humans, rather than like chimps? Although we share 99% of our DNA with chimps, our faces and bodies look quite different from each other.
Evolution
Nov 11, 2021
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NUS biologists have discovered that Hox genes are essential for the development of eyespot patterns on the wings of Bicyclus anynana butterflies.
Evolution
Mar 3, 2021
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The body plan of an organism, crafted over millennia of evolutionary trial and error, is so exquisitely fine-tuned that even a subtle deviation can be detrimental to individual survival and reproductive success. Now, researchers ...
Evolution
Dec 16, 2020
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The incredible diversity of life forms on the planet led Charles Darwin to note, "From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." In order to gain a true understanding ...
Evolution
Aug 28, 2019
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Dicyemids, microscopic parasites comprising 30 cells, are in-between creatures. With their basic three-part body plan, they are more complex than single-celled protozoans but considerably less complex than multicellular metazoans—the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 30, 2019
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A joint team of geneticists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, demonstrated that the emergence of mammary glands in placental mammals and marsupials ...
Evolution
Nov 15, 2016
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Sequencing and comparative analysis of the genome of the Western Orchard predatory mite has revealed intriguingly-extreme genomic evolutionary dynamics through an international research effort co-led by scientists from the ...
Biotechnology
Mar 10, 2016
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In experiments on the fruit fly model organism Drosophila melanogaster, Heidelberg University biologists gained new insight into how feeding behaviour is encoded and controlled. The research team led by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann ...
Biotechnology
Jan 15, 2016
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