Sentences with phrase «important in embryonic development»

Ho and collaborators recently solved the Xenopus form of a PRMT5 - MEP50 complex, important in embryonic development and aberrant in some forms of cancer.

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The ALK gene is important during embryonic development of the nervous system but should be inactive later in life.

Those deletions tended to involve genes that affect cilia, cellular structures that are important for signaling and patterning in embryonic development.

Using a nuclear protein expressed in follicle stem cells (FSCs), the researchers found that castor, which plays an important role in specifying which types of brain cells are produced during embryonic development, also helps maintain FSCs throughout the life of the animal.

In unpublished work presented at the meeting, Barna and colleagues also found that certain ribosome varieties may be important at different stages of embryonic development.

The research produced another important finding: «We were able to explain the role of iodine in embryonic brain development at the cellular level,» says Denise Stenzel.

In addition, researchers found that the gene families related to whale's body hair and sensory receptors were contracted, such as Keratin - related gene families associated with hair formation, several Hox genes that play an important role in the body plan and embryonic developmenIn addition, researchers found that the gene families related to whale's body hair and sensory receptors were contracted, such as Keratin - related gene families associated with hair formation, several Hox genes that play an important role in the body plan and embryonic developmenin the body plan and embryonic development.

Because the RNAi wasn't used to dampen FOXP2 activity until 23 days after the birds hatched, the new study shows that the gene has a role beyond embryonic development, says neurogeneticist Simon Fisher of the University of Oxford in the U.K. «The gene, at least in songbirds, may have important active functions in [neural] circuits,» he says.

This signaling pathway was found to be important in embryonic bone development (Wan et al., 2013), and in osteoblasts (bone cells) regulation (Glass et al., 2005; Harada & Rodan, 2003).

Dr Ludovic Vallier, co-author on the study from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, said: «This study represents an important step in understanding human embryonic development.

The aorta - gonad - mesonephros (AGM) region in the aortic wall appears to be the most important source of new blood cells, and it has been found to contain numerous hematopoietic stem cells by day 11 of mouse embryonic development.

The potential for early embryonic events to impact on adult physiology remains an important question in health and development.

In this study, the team delved deep into the nucleus of cells belonging to mouse and zebrafish embryos — two important animal models of embryonic development — in order to determine how the Dll4 gene is turned oIn this study, the team delved deep into the nucleus of cells belonging to mouse and zebrafish embryos — two important animal models of embryonic development — in order to determine how the Dll4 gene is turned oin order to determine how the Dll4 gene is turned on.

We propose that ZNF462 plays an important role in embryonic development, and is associated with craniofacial and neurodevelopmental abnormalities.

Thus, the ability to measure DNAme in single cells has the potential to make important contributions to the understanding of several key biological processes, such as embryonic development, disease progression and aging.