«Many of them are beginning to be expressed shortly before birth, where they turn off genes that were necessary for
the rapidly developing embryo.
Not exact matches
5 weeks pregnant, the
embryo's heart is
developing rapidly.
The
embryos are growing and
developing rapidly, and soon you will have to renew your wardrobe, in view of the growing tummy.
By suppressing genes that are active in the
developing embryo, silenced just before birth, and re-activated years later in many advanced cancers, the let - 7 family of «microRNAs» — tiny snippets of RNA that can put the brakes on expression of selected genes — appears to prevent human cancer cells from reasserting their prenatal capacity to divide
rapidly, travel and spread.
Rieger used zebrafish larvae to model peripheral neuropathy because the
embryos develop rapidly and because the larval fish are translucent, making them ideal for studying the progression of nerve degeneration in live animals.