Sentences with phrase «very early human development»

The ability to keep human embryos developing in the lab for almost 2 weeks — achieved for the first time this year — should provide new insights into very early human development, and generate debate on whether ethical limits on studying embryos in culture should be extended.

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The human race, in other words, is possibly very early in its development and is by no means clearly the climax of cosmic emergence.

Darcia opened this first session, «Life Giving: Mindful Beginnings,» with a very interesting introduction to her new book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality, particularly the early body - mind co-construction of the infant by caregivers.

«The human organoids are good for studying the very early stages of brain development, but may not reveal much about later, more mature stages on which things like sociality depend,» says John Mason at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Salk scientists and colleagues have proposed new molecular criteria for judging just how close any line of laboratory - generated stem cells comes to mimicking embryonic cells seen in the very earliest stages of human development, known as naïve stem cells.

Ultimately, this knowledge will be useful for understanding the very early events in human development, which are reflected in the naïve and primed stem cell states, and could also lead to improved methods to reprogram human cells for stem cell - based therapies.

The mechanisms that underlie early embryonic development in humans and cattle are very similar.

Sanderson Hale Doughty Human Development and Psychology Current City: Portland, Oregon Current Job: Teacher, the Portland School of Experiential Education Career highlight: Dedicating my life to early childhood education and pushing the envelope with that is possible in educating and caring for very young children in a progressive learning environment.

As with humans, a dog's early learning experience is very important to their development and their future behaviour.

Early hominid reliance on carcasses as a source of meat, and the competition with fellow scavengers that went with it, are thought to have contributed to the evolution of human tool use, cooperative food acquisition, and even language development — the very things that define us as a species!