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Scientists have officially grown a notochord—the tissues that act as the “GPS for the developing embryo” by guiding the ...

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Garfin agreed to the one-year interim dean role. One year turned into two years, then three years. Now after more than six ...

But under the promising numbers, there are serious challenges that ordinary Nigerians face every day. Businesses are struggling, families are feeling the pinch, and multinational companies are ...

Researchers have made a significant advancement in studying early human development by successfully creating a lab-grown notochord, a key structural component in vertebrates. This model, based on a ...

Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have generated human stem cell models 1 which ... The scientists believe this work ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA ... SMA is estimated to affect about 1 in every 10,000 live births [Note: changed the number and source here to reflect more recent data], and about 1 in every 50 people ...

Spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA ... which are caused by SMN deficiency due to SMN1 mutations. There also are a number of symptom management and supportive interventions SMA patients can use, in ...