New Insight Into Birth Defect Characterized By Digit Duplication And Fusion
Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 04:21
in Biology & Nature
Birth defects characterized by malformation of the limbs are relatively common. New insight into one form of the birth defect synpolydactyly, where individuals have 1 or more digit (finger or toe) duplicated and 2 or more digits fused together, has now been provided researchers in Germany who studied a mouse model of the condition.
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