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We now know why a belly button becomes an 'innie' #Science #Biology #DevelopmentalBiology #BellyButtonFacts #HumanAnatomy
https://purescience.news/article?id=959259

We now know why a belly button becomes an 'innie'

Scientists have discovered a new abdominal structure called the umbilical sheath, which anchors the remnant of the umbilical cord to deep abdominal tissues and helps determine the shape of your navel

Pure Science News

purescience_news 3d ago

We now know why a belly button becomes an 'innie' #Science #Biology #DevelopmentalBiology #BellyButtonFacts #HumanAnatomy
https://purescience.news/article?id=959259

We now know why a belly button becomes an 'innie'

Scientists have discovered a new abdominal structure called the umbilical sheath, which anchors the remnant of the umbilical cord to deep abdominal tissues and helps determine the shape of your navel

Pure Science News

purescience_news 3d ago

We now know why a belly button becomes an 'innie' #Science #Biology #DevelopmentalBiology #BellyButtonFacts #HumanAnatomy
https://purescience.news/article?id=959259

We now know why a belly button becomes an 'innie'

Scientists have discovered a new abdominal structure called the umbilical sheath, which anchors the remnant of the umbilical cord to deep abdominal tissues and helps determine the shape of your navel

Pure Science News

purescience_news 3d ago

We now know why a belly button becomes an 'innie' #Science #Biology #DevelopmentalBiology #BellyButtonFacts #HumanAnatomy
https://purescience.news/article?id=959259

We now know why a belly button becomes an 'innie'

Scientists have discovered a new abdominal structure called the umbilical sheath, which anchors the remnant of the umbilical cord to deep abdominal tissues and helps determine the shape of your navel

Pure Science News

Scientific Frontline 4d ago

Developmental biology is the comprehensive scientific discipline dedicated to understanding the intricate processes through which organisms grow, develop, and achieve their complex, highly organized biological forms.
#DevelopmentalBiology #Biology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/cat03212602.html

Developmental Biology: In-Depth Description

To understand how biological form is generated, researchers rely on a set of foundational principles and highly technical methodologies.

Scientific Frontline Mar 17

Performing vesicoamniotic shunt implantation during the first trimester of #pregnancy significantly improves survival rates and preserves kidney function in unborn children with congenital lower #urinary tract obstruction.
#PrenatalMedicine #FetalSurgery #Pediatric #Nephrology #DevelopmentalBiology #Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/med03172601.html

Early intervention in severe fetal megacystis can increase survival rate and kidney function

A prospective study on vesicoamniotic shunt implantation in the first trimester of pregnancy

Scientific Frontline Mar 15

Molecular atlas of the adult Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) brain demonstrates that neurons retain a genetic record of their developmental origins, and that sex-specific behavioral circuits arise from a shared developmental template. Rather than building entirely separate circuits, sexual dimorphism in the brain is achieved through selective neuronal survival within shared cell lineages.
#Neuroscience #Neurogenetics #DevelopmentalBiology #SystemsNeuroscience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/ns03152601.html

New research reveals how development and sex shape the brain

How brain development lays the foundation for both shared and sex-specific circuit

Scientific Frontline Mar 14

Connectome-seq is a high-throughput brain-mapping platform that employs unique RNA "barcodes" to tag individual neurons, facilitating the simultaneous mapping of thousands of neural connections at single-synapse resolution.
#Neuroscience #MolecularBiology #CellBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/ns03142602.html

RNA barcodes enable high-speed mapping of connections in the brain

Connectome-seq drastically reduces the time and cost associated with mapping elaborate neural pathways

Scientific Frontline Feb 16

Researchers have identified the specific #neurogenic progenitor cells responsible for generating #dopaminergic neurons, alongside a distinct progenitor type that creates the necessary supportive environment for their survival.
#Neuroscience #DevelopmentalBiology #RegenerativeMedicine #Biology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/ns02162601.html

How dopamine producing neurons arise in the developing brain

The researchers also identified a second progenitor cell type that supports dopaminergic neuron development and survival

The Inquisitive Biologist Feb 15

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I expanded my collection of #Tolkien books with The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation from W.W. Norton
- I used my employer's Christmas voucher to buy a copy of Simon Parkin's The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege from Sceptre (look out for a review in due course).
- I also found a second-hand copy of What Is Regeneration? from the University of Chicago Press.

#Books #Scicomm #Literature #DevelopmentalBiology #SeedBank #Botany #Bookstodon @bookstodon