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Pro-social motive promotes early understanding of false belief
Ever since Premack & Woodruff’s classic article1, which introduced the term “theory of mind”, researchers have claimed that strategic deception is the most natural behavioural consequence of unde…
Received 20 March 2008 06:52 UTC; Posted 22 March 2008
Posted to: Developmental Biology
Ablation of smooth muscle myosin heavy chain SM2 increases smooth muscle contractility and results in postnatal death in mice
The smooth muscle myosin heavy chains (SMHC) are motor proteins powering smooth muscle contraction. Alternate splicing of SHMC gene at the C-terminus produces SM1, and SM2 myosin isoforms; SM2 (200…
Received 28 February 2008 23:22 UTC; Posted 03 March 2008
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Cell Biology
Modelling Hepatic Endoderm Development: Highly Efficient Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Functional Hepatic Endoderm Requires ActivinA and Wnt3a Signalling.
Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are a valuable source of pluripotential primary cells. However, their homogeneous cellular differentiation to specific cell types in vitro has proven difficult …
Received 05 January 2008 09:04 UTC; Posted 10 January 2008
Posted to: Biotechnology, Developmental Biology
Silent Spring – the lost call
The “silence” in Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring1 alludes to the demise of bird populations through reproductive problems and death resulting from exposure to the pesticides of that time, many of whi…
Received 04 January 2008 18:39 UTC; Posted 08 January 2008
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Earth & Environment
Bio-communication of Plants
Plants communicate with a great variety of symbiotic partners, above and below ground. Constant monitoring of signals of biotic origin as well as abiotic environmental influences allows plants to g…
Received 15 December 2007 14:29 UTC; Posted 20 December 2007
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Molecular Cell Biology, Plant Biology
Chorionic Structures in Maternal Blood
Chorionic villi are the exchange structures of the placenta where human fetuses receive oxygen and nutrients from maternal blood, this article reports an improvement of a published method to recove…
Received 05 December 2007 23:41 UTC; Posted 13 December 2007
Posted to: Developmental Biology
Numbers, not value, motivate cooperation in humans and orangutans
Cooperation among competitors-whether sharing the burden of wind resistance in the Tour de France, forming price-fixing cartels in economic markets, or adhering to arms-control agreements in intern…
Received 05 December 2007 21:07 UTC; Posted 05 December 2007
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Ecology
Pregnancy Obstructs Involution Stage II of the Mammary Gland in Cows: General Biological Implications
BackgroundRepeated research findings over the last 4 decades show that involution of mammary glands in dairy cows did not regress to same extend as that noticed in other mammalian species.*...
Received 03 September 2007 11:42 UTC; Posted 03 September 2007
Posted to: Cancer, Developmental Biology, Immunology
Metastasis as a faulty recapitulation of ontogeny
RAF oncogenes are involved in a variety of phenotypic switch phenomena. If for example oncogenic RAF is expressed together with Myc in B lineage cells, a lineage switch to macrophages occurs at low…
Received 23 August 2007 09:49 UTC; Posted 23 August 2007
Posted to: Cancer, Developmental Biology, Genetics & Genomics
Characterization of Fut10 and Fut11, Putative Alpha-1-3/4 Fucosyltransferase Genes Important for Vertebrate Development
Two new, putative alpha-1-3/4 fucosyltransferases (α1-3/4 Fuc-Ts), Fuc-TX and Fuc-TXI, were identified in the vertebrate genome and transcriptome sequence databases through sequence homology-...
Received 20 June 2007 20:53 UTC; Posted 20 June 2007
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Molecular Cell Biology
