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Crocodile heads teach us a cracking lesson

Posted by , on 3 March 2013

  I recently came across a study by Milinkovitch and colleagues on the development of crocodile head scales. I think it highlights how nature sometimes chooses unusual ways to approach ...

Making sense of Wnt signaling

Posted by , on 3 March 2013

Did it ever occur to you that to enjoy music from Antonio Vivaldi to Lil Wayne, we use only about 22,000 sensory hair cells in our ears? Because hair cells ...

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