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Calcium receptors and the natural history of lung development
12.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

The Medicine
It doesn’t take a neonatologist to know how intimidating the multitude of potential issues are that come along with premature birth. Hypoglycemia, anemia, sepsis an intracranial hemorrhaging are a few of the complications pediatricians have to manage in the fight for life in the NICU. Thanks to a study published recently in the Journal [...]
HACNS1
09.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Go over to John Hawk’s blog and take a look at an interesting article that recently came out in Science on evo-devo and hominid evolution.
Better to climb you with, ma
08.20.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I found this little ditty in this month’s issue of the journal Evolution. It’s entitled Ossification heterochrony in the therian postcranial skeleton and the marsupial-placental dichotomy, and does a very good job of exploring the differential rates of bone formation in marsupial (the fetus is nourished by a yolk-like sac) v. placental (the fetus is [...]