According to a recent report by the Commonwealth Fund, the American maternal mortality rate is more than twice as high as those in Canada, France and Korea, and at least four times the rates of ...

This Review discusses how signalling networks and epigenetic modifications regulate the development and function of the different extraembryonic tissues during implantation, axis specification and ...

Air pollution can, thus, disrupt the normal balance of cytokine genes -- genes involved in producing immune responses -- and lead ... "Our findings highlight the importance of minimising air pollution ...

Maternal stress and social support, which are considered risk and protective factors, respectively, did correlate with different dimensions of children’s HRQoL. Treyvaud (2014) emphasized the ...

[6,7] Haig stresses that, among mammals in general, mother and fetus do not carry identical gene sets. In other words, maternal and fetal interests are not always in harmony. Maternal genes ...

Off-axis parabolic mirrors (OAP Mirrors ... technical tools to help people understand and streamline the design and specification process for OAP Mirrors. RoC represents the radius of curvature ...

Viruses are lean, mean, infection machines. Their genomes are tiny, usually limited to a handful of absolutely essential genes, and they shed extra genomic deadweight extremely fast. Usually.

This dynamic and challenging course is for students who have already completed, or are completing, an HND, Foundation degree or equivalent Level 5 qualification in Business (or a related subject).

During the maternal-to-zygotic transition in Drosophila, the pioneer transcription factors Zelda and GAF jointly regulate the transcriptional activation of zygotic genes in the early embryo ...

While the pathway has been described in detail in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, much less is known in more basal insects ... RNA-Seq data was used to quantify transposon and Rp-PIWI genes ...