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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. SignificanceIn animal embryos, primordial germ cells (PGCs) and endoderm arise in proximity. InDrosophila, the separation between the two cell types occurs at the posterior pole of the embryo while it is a syncytium. The cues that designate PGCs and ...
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A team from the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), working with a large international network of hospitals and research centers, has shown that left ventricular…
Researchers at the Department of Women's and Children's Health have used a novel technique to map which genes are active in different regions of the skeleton's growth plates.
Pregnant women in Australia are facing an unfair two-tiered system for managing morning sickness, with financial status affecting who can access the full range of modern anti-nausea medications…
Cells in the brain communicate in different ways. The classical mode involves tight connections between individual cells that signal only to each other.
Cells can switch off genes by tightly packaging DNA around proteins called histones. However, scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered that under certain conditions, this…
In South Africa, it's been legal for several years for people to grow hemp (a type of Cannabis sativa with very low levels of the psychoactive compound THC) for personal use following changes to the…