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Merkel cell originates from skin, not the neural crest: study

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine assistant professor of pediatrics, neurosciences and otolaryngology, Stephen M. Maricich, M.D., Ph.D., and his team found that Merkel cells originate in the skin, not the ...


Scientists identify gene vital to early embryonic cells forming a normal heart and skull

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center highlights the critical role a certain gene and its protein play during early embryonic development on formation of a normal heart and skull.


Erosion of the Yucca Mountain crest

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

The Yucca Mountain crest in Nevada, USA has been proposed as a permanent site for high level radioactive waste. But a new study, already published as an article in press by Elsevier's journal Geomorphology and recently includ ...


Researchers tie crest size to seabirds' suitability as a mate

Researchers tie crest size to seabirds' suitability as a mate

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A newly released study by researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks offers evidence that in one breed of northern seabird, the size of males' feather crests may be more than simple ornamentation.


Researchers Unlock the Secrets of Gene Regulatory Networks

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created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A quartet of studies by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) highlight a special feature on gene regulatory networks recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (P ...


Alcohol consumption can cause too much cell death, fetal abnormalities

Alcohol consumption can cause too much cell death, fetal abnormalities

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 25, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The initial signs of fetal alcohol syndrome are slight but classic: facial malformations such as a flat and high upper lip, small eye openings and a short nose.