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How do Animals reach the right Size?

Discovery of a gene that regulates cell size and growth rate in animals

Why is the discovery of a gene that regulates the size and growth rate of animals and cells important? International scientsts meet to discuss drillling through 5km of ice to reach Lake Vostock in Antarctica, one of the largest in the world. Bananas and warthogs are two of the subjects at the new molecular biology laboratory at the Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. How the Accretion Theory of the origin of the solar system now has a time scale.

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