Fossil skeletons have long fascinated researchers as a window to prehistory. But so far, little is known about details of sexual development in extinct creatures. An international team of researchers from China, Germany and ...
Evolution
Jun 30, 2023
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A family of regulatory molecules, microRNAs, are key to the maintenance of fertility in both genders.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 28, 2022
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Research from academics at Queen Mary University of London School of Biological and Behavioral Sciences, published in BMC Biology, has revealed the evolutionary history of a hormone that controls sexual maturation in humans.
Plants & Animals
Aug 26, 2022
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The perception of gender in children's voices is of special interest to researchers, because voices of young boys and girls are very similar before the age of puberty. Adult male and female voices are often quite different ...
Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2021
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Genes that time the transition to adulthood are well-studied in the roundworm C. elegans, and at least partially conserved in mammals, where they regulate the onset of puberty. Juvenile worms turn into adults when a protein ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 6, 2020
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A team of researchers at the University of British Columbia has found that dairy cattle have less stable personality traits during puberty. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group describes ...
Very little is known about how the onset of puberty is controlled in humans, but the discovery of a new gene in the roundworm C. elegans could be the "missing link" that determines when it's time to make this juvenile-to-adult ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 3, 2019
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Puberty is the threshold between childhood and adulthood. Behavior and appearance change considerably during this period – not only in humans but also in our closest relatives, the great apes. In a current study researchers ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 29, 2014
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Human noses come in all shapes and sizes. But one feature seems to hold true: Men's noses are bigger than women's.
Evolution
Nov 18, 2013
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Watch out, acne. Doctors soon may have a new weapon against zits: a harmless virus living on our skin that naturally seeks out and kills the bacteria that cause pimples.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 25, 2012
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