Submissions tagged with development
(6 documents)
Little cost of injury to growth and development of damselflies
Background:Damaged or missing appendages are a common problem in numerous vertebrate and invertebrate taxa and can negatively affect many aspects of life: mobility, foraging, predator avoidan…
Received 14 August 2009 19:26 UTC; Posted 17 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
When does right functional hemispheric lateralization arise? Evidence from preterm infants
In recent years, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has allowed researchers to individuate an earlier morphological development of the right hemisphere compared to the left hemisphere before birth. A…
Received 29 April 2009 10:55 UTC; Posted 01 May 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
The beauty of the mammalian vascular system
Beauty is a characteristic of objects that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure. In nature, aesthetic appreciation thereof has given rise to the mathematical search for good series (e.g. th…
Received 25 March 2009 12:40 UTC; Posted 25 March 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology
Young children do not integrate visual and haptic information
Several studies have shown that adults integrate visual and haptic information (and information from other modalities) in a statistically optimal fashion, weighting each sense according to its reli…
Received 16 January 2008 06:54 UTC; Posted 16 January 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
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
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