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Kobe University

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Kobe University developmental biologist KYOGOKU Hirohisa specializes on studying the early development directly after fertilization. In the journal Nature, he and his team now publish that they found that the maternal and paternal pronuclei engage in a race to absorb factors that regulate nucleus growth, which helps maintain proper regulation and supports development. 

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