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Optical Systems Used for AUC by Beckman Coulter Life Sciences by
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Official technical description of absorbance scans and reference-sector interference detection during analytical ultracentrifugation.
The gradient-sensing mechanism in bacterial chemotaxis by Robert M. Macnab and Daniel E. Koshland Jr. by
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Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 69(9), pp. 2509–2512: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC426976/
Relevant passages: Abstract and experimental responses to concentration steps imposed by the temporal gradient apparatus.
Serologic Tests for Dengue Virus by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by
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Institutional source: www.cdc.gov/dengue/hcp/diagnosis-testing/serologic-tests-for-dengue-virus.html
Relevant passage: IgG Tests, persistence after earlier exposure and possible cross-reactivity with other flavivirus infections. These limitations matter when an antibody assay is interpreted as a record of prior infection.
Redefining the progression of lineage segregations during mammalian embryogenesis by clonal analysis by Elena Tzouanacou and others by
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Elena Tzouanacou and coauthors. 2009. Developmental Cell 17, 365–376.
Initiation of a conserved trophectoderm program in human, cow and mouse embryos by Claudia Gerri and others by
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Claudia Gerri and coauthors. 2020. Nature 587, 443–447.
Species-specific contribution of volumetric growth and tissue convergence to posterior body elongation in vertebrates by Ben Steventon and others by
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Ben Steventon and coauthors. 2016. Development 143, 1732–1741.
Neuromesodermal progenitors are a conserved source of spinal cord with divergent growth dynamics by Andrea Attardi and others by
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Andrea Attardi and coauthors. 2018. Development 145, dev166728.
Corrections: doi.org/10.1242/dev.175620 and doi.org/10.1242/dev.195610. Use the corrected article when interpreting individual figures.
Germ line and soma cooperate during oogenesis to establish the dorsoventral pattern of egg shell and embryo in Drosophila melanogaster by Trudi Schüpbach by
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Spatially restricted expression of pipe in the Drosophila egg chamber defines embryonic dorsal-ventral polarity by Jonaki Sen and others by
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Jonaki Sen and coauthors. 1998. Cell 95, 471–481.
Single cell transcriptome analysis of human, marmoset and mouse embryos reveals common and divergent features of preimplantation development by Thorsten Boroviak and others by
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Thorsten Boroviak and coauthors. 2018. Development 145, dev167833.
Early lineage segregation between epiblast and primitive endoderm in mouse blastocysts through the Grb2-MAPK pathway by Claire Chazaud and others by
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Human hypoblast formation is not dependent on FGF signalling by Mila Roode and others by
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Mila Roode and coauthors. 2012. Developmental Biology 361, 358–363.
Defining the three cell lineages of the human blastocyst by single-cell RNA-seq by Paul Blakeley and others by
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Paul Blakeley and coauthors. 2015. Development 142, 3151–3165.
Suppression of ERK signalling promotes pluripotent epiblast in the human blastocyst by Claire S. Simon and others by
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Avian hairy gene expression identifies a molecular clock linked to vertebrate segmentation and somitogenesis by Isabel Palmeirim and others by
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Isabel Palmeirim and coauthors. 1997. Cell 91, 639–648.
Collinear activation of Hoxb genes during gastrulation is linked to mesoderm cell ingression by Tadahiro Iimura and Olivier Pourquié by
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Odd-paired controls frequency doubling in Drosophila segmentation by altering the pair-rule gene regulatory network by Erik Clark and Michael Akam by
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Evidence for the temporal regulation of insect segmentation by a conserved sequence of transcription factors by Erik Clark and Andrew D. Peel by
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Erik Clark, Andrew D. Peel. 2018. Development 145, dev155580.
Induction of germ cell formation by oskar by Anne Ephrussi and Ruth Lehmann by
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Drosophila Pgc protein inhibits P-TEFb recruitment to chromatin in primordial germ cells by Kazuko Hanyu-Nakamura and others by
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Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
Intro to OurBigBook
. Source. We have two killer features:
- topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculusArticles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.Figure 1. Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivativeVideo 2. OurBigBook Web topics demo. Source. - local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
- as HTML files to a static website, which you can host yourself for free on many external providers like GitHub Pages, and remain in full control
Figure 2. You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either OurBigBook.com or as a static website.Figure 3. Visual Studio Code extension installation.Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally. Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension. - Infinitely deep tables of contents:
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
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