Tag: HOX genes

  • Nation & World

    Breaking down backbones

    Harvard scientists are using the fossil record and a close examination of the vertebrae of thousands of modern animals to understand how and when specialized regions in the spines of mammals developed.

    4 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    Bird, meet cousin alligator

    Assistant professor Arkhat Abzhanov looks to birds’ relatives by way of dinosaurs — alligators — for clues to their evolution.

    5 minutes