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The noninvasive nature of the detection of fetal DNA in the maternal circulation represents the greatest advantage over the conventional methods of prenatal diagnosis.
Ester Silveira Ramos
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BackgroundParkinson’s disease (PD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease with an elusive etiology that involves the interaction between genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors.
Yen-Chung Chen +10 more
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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It has become somewhat of a platitude to call Aristotle the first epigenesist insofar as he thought form and structure emerged gradually from an unorganized, amorphous embryo. But modern biology now recognizes two senses of “epigenesis”.
Henry, Devin
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Differential expression of conserved germ line markers and delayed segregation of male and female primordial germ cells in a hermaphrodite, the leech helobdella. [PDF]
In sexually reproducing animals, primordial germ cells (PGCs) are often set aside early in embryogenesis, a strategy that minimizes the risk of genomic damage associated with replication and mitosis during the cell cycle.
Cho, Sung-Jin +2 more
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Kant's Metaphysics of Race, Its Distinctiveness, and Its Normativity
ABSTRACT Drawing on the contemporary taxonomy of the metaphysics of race, this paper shows that Kant's theory of race occupies a distinct metaphysical position on race. Second, it argues that Kant's metaphysics of race inherently produces racist claims.
Reza Mosayebi
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Developmental Systems Theory as a Process Theory [PDF]
Griffiths and Russell D. Gray (1994, 1997, 2001) have argued that the fundamental unit of analysis in developmental systems theory should be a process – the life cycle – and not a set of developmental resources and interactions between those resources ...
Griffiths, Paul Edmund, Stotz, Karola
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Epigenetic associations of GPNMB rs199347 variant with alcohol consumption in Parkinson’s disease
IntroductionAlcohol consumption can induce a neuroinflammatory response and contribute to the progression of neurodegeneration. However, its association with Parkinson’s disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, remains ...
Yen-Chung Chen +10 more
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Topological Theory in Bioconstructivism [PDF]
In the essay “Landscapes of Change: Boccioni’s Stati d’animo as a General Theory of Models,” in Assemblage 19, 1992, Sanford Kwinter proposed a number of theoretical models which could be applied to computer-generated forms in Bioconstructivism.
Hendrix, John S
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Epigênese e epigenética: as muitas vidas do vitalismo ocidental
Resumo A análise da história e dos usos contemporâneos dos termos epigênese, atribuído a Aristóteles, e epigenética, criado no século XX pelo biólogo C. H.
Gláucia Silva +1 more
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