Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Marsupials And Humans Share Same Genetic Imprinting That Evolved 150 Million Years Ago

ScienceDaily -- Research published in Nature Genetics by a team of international scientists including the University of Melbourne, Department of Zoology, has established an identical mechanism of genetic imprinting, a process involved in marsupial and human fetal development, which evolved 150 million years ago.

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