Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began by Leah Hazard Buy on Bookshop Ecco, 336 pp., $29.99 Of course, there were downsides, too. Internal gestation didn’t just reshape our reproductive organs, but pulled in the immune system and the metabolic system, too. As we became placental mammals, Bohannon writes, “the entire female body […]
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The New Science of the Womb
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began by Leah Hazard Buy on Bookshop Ecco, 336 pp., $29.99 Of course, there were downsides, too. Internal gestation didn’t just reshape our reproductive organs, but pulled in the immune system and the metabolic system, too. As we became placental mammals, Bohannon writes, “the entire female body […]
Read MoreBoyz II Men Wade Into Viral 1st Date Debate With Chili’s Partnership
One of the longest standing urban legends in music is that Boyz II Men recorded the famous Chili’s “I Want My Baby Back” jingle. The R&B stars have clarified many times that it wasn’t them, but now the group is adding a new wrinkle to the story: They have recorded a new version of the […]
Read MoreStudy explains how part of the nucleolus evolved
Inside all living cells, loosely formed assemblies known as biomolecular condensates perform many critical functions. However, it is not well understood how proteins and other biomolecules come together to form these assemblies within cells. MIT biologists have now discovered that a single scaffolding protein is responsible for the formation of one of these condensates, which […]
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