Word: organization
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Mango’s research focuses on organ development, mainly of the digestive tract, in the widely-studied worm C. elegans and the associated cancer and birth defects that can arise from mutations in these developmental genes...
...groundbreaking studies of the pathways involved in organ development have opened up alternative ways of thinking about developmental hierarchies and networks,” Bloxham said in the press release...
Mango’s lab is currently studying how the gut forms in worms—useful because they are transparent and so scientists can study a complicated process, like organogenesis, by watching the organ form from beginning to end in a living embryo...
...hopes to tease apart the influences of nature and nurture. Ultimately, he hopes to find, for instance, that Anthony Mann's plan to become a pilot and Brandon's to study law will lead to brain differences that are detectable on future MRIs. The brain, more than any other organ, is where experience becomes flesh...
...even if Zuma (pictured above) succeeds in providing stability while fulfilling promises to his leftist supporters, the status of the African National Congress (ANC) party, once the continent's most respected organ of national liberation, has been irreversibly diminished by the infighting of the past few years. Under Nelson Mandela, the ANC peerlessly wielded its moral authority. But that trait also encouraged leaders to think they were above reproach, an attitude that found its fullest expression in Mbeki, who often acted as if he had no reason to explain himself and simply asked people to take his decisions on trust...