Fossil skeletons have long fascinated researchers as a window to prehistory. But so far, little is known about details of sexual development in extinct creatures. An international team of researchers from China, Germany and ...
Evolution
Jun 30, 2023
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A family of regulatory molecules, microRNAs, are key to the maintenance of fertility in both genders.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 28, 2022
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Research from academics at Queen Mary University of London School of Biological and Behavioral Sciences, published in BMC Biology, has revealed the evolutionary history of a hormone that controls sexual maturation in humans.
Plants & Animals
Aug 26, 2022
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The perception of gender in children's voices is of special interest to researchers, because voices of young boys and girls are very similar before the age of puberty. Adult male and female voices are often quite different ...
Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2021
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Genes that time the transition to adulthood are well-studied in the roundworm C. elegans, and at least partially conserved in mammals, where they regulate the onset of puberty. Juvenile worms turn into adults when a protein ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 6, 2020
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A team of researchers at the University of British Columbia has found that dairy cattle have less stable personality traits during puberty. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group describes ...
Very little is known about how the onset of puberty is controlled in humans, but the discovery of a new gene in the roundworm C. elegans could be the "missing link" that determines when it's time to make this juvenile-to-adult ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 3, 2019
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Puberty is much more than just a time of biological overdrive, propelled by sexual maturation. Progress in developmental science has greatly broadened the perspective of this critical maturational milestone.
Social Sciences
Mar 14, 2019
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Children are entering puberty younger than before, according to recent studies, raising concerns that childhood obesity and hormone-contaminated water supplies may be to blame. However, our archaeological research suggests ...
Archaeology
Feb 12, 2018
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New information about the relationship between hormones, muscle development and puberty onset could help farmers efficiently breed sheep for meat.
Plants & Animals
Dec 8, 2014
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