A dense rainforest or other verdant terrestrial vegetation may be what first comes to mind at the mention of photosynthesis. Yet the clouds of phytoplankton that fill the oceans are …
Gideon Lichfield: OK, but let me play the synthetic biology devil’s advocate for a second. Lauren Goode: OK, OK. Gideon Lichfield: When you have kids, you are throwing the genetic …
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Meanwhile, Hanna’s team in Israel was growing mouse embryo models in a similar way, as they described in a paper in Cell that was published shortly before the paper from …
The new paper is the result of herculean computational analyses, involving researchers in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom, to better understand the role ancient retroviruses play in early embryonic …
Next, they acquired follicles from a hair transplant clinic and transplanted them onto mice. Normally, these follicles go dormant for a couple of months after transplantation. However, Plikus suspected that …