developmental-biology
3 stories tagged "developmental-biology"
Autoimmune & Inflammation
Oxford Found the Cells That May Mark Which Joints Rheumatoid Arthritis Attacks. They Were There Before You Were Born.
The joints rheumatoid arthritis attacks and the ones it spares are built differently in the womb, seeded with different cells before a single joint ever swells.
Brain & AgingFor Thirty Years the Model Said Blue Cones Drift Out of Sharp Vision. They Were Turning Into Red and Green.
Johns Hopkins researchers grew human retinas in a dish and watched blue cones convert into the red and green cones behind sharp central vision. The three-decade-old migration model was wrong.
Brain & AgingYour Brain Has 170 Billion Cells and No Blueprint. Here's How One Cell Pulls It Off.
For fifty years the textbook said chemical gradients tell brain cells where to go. A new model says cells inherit their address from their family tree instead.