A SUGGESTION FROM MODERN EMBRYOLOGY

The organizer concept and modern embryology: Anglo-American perspectives.

This paper analyses the origins of the Spemann-Mangold organizer concept of 1924 in relation to his earlier background and concepts. It traces the consequences and fate of the organizer, and related concepts (embryonic induction, gradients, fields) through subsequent phases in the evolution of developmental biology up to the present, primarily from a UK perspective, but also in the USA. The ori...

A Suggestion on Suggestion

Heterodox Concepts in Modern Evolutionary Embryology, 1900-1950

Whatever the evolutionary model we adopt, in the case of sexual reproduction, the process has an embryological significance because this is the way to generate individuals and to perpetuate the life. The connection between evolution and embryology is a necessary event. In this evolutionary context, the key question is: how two species are formed from the same biological unit? During the first h...

Suggestion Mining from Opinionated Text

In addition to the positive and negative sentiments expressed by speakers, opinions on the web also convey suggestions. Such text comprise of advice, recommendations and tips on a variety of points of interest. We propose that suggestions can be extracted from the available opinionated text and put to several use cases. The problem has been identified only recently as a viable task, and there i...

Embryology

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