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Article: Research from New York Medical College, Medical College in the area of molecular reproduction published.
- Article from:
- Life Science Weekly
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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"Ernest Everett Just's experimental work on post-fertilization events in invertebrate eggs led him to posit a dynamic and directive role for the zygotic ''ectoplasm'' (cortical cytoplasm), in subsequent development. His perspective was neglected during the years that followed his early death not only because of his well-documented marginalization as an African-American in U.S. science, but because his ideas were at odds with the growing gene-centrism of developmental biology in the latter half of the 20th century," investigators in the United States report (see also Molecular Reproduction).
"This essay reviews experimental work that shows that the egg cortex in ...