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...Geoffrey Tabin, an accomplished American ophthalmologist, sent me an e-mail recently reporting on the week he spent in a poor village in Ghana, in West Africa. "We examined 4,600 people and documented their visual status, refractive errors and any pathology or disease," he wrote. "We gave spectacles to all who needed glasses and gave away 500 pairs of reading glasses. My retinal partner and I performed 159 cataract surgeries. All of the patients were seen one week postoperatively. There were no infections or serious complications...
...scientists chose to work with Pitxl because it is present during the early stages of the chicken embryo's development. Logan and Tabin believe that Pitxl activates other genes responsible for limb-specific development...
...same gene causes the differentiation between thumbs and the other fingers, and between big and little toes. From this, Tabin and Logan deduced that one gene causes the differentiation of limbs into arms or legs...
...future, Tabin also said he is interested in looking at the large-scale effects of these genes...
...interested in understanding the morphogenesis of the entire embryo," Tabin said, referring to the embryo's developmental stages. "In terms of Pitxl, I want to understand more what it does in limb patterning...