Perfect timing: Making the 'switch' from juvenile to adult

Very little is known about how the onset of puberty is controlled in humans, but the discovery of a new gene in the roundworm C. elegans could be the «missing link» that determines when it’s time to make this juvenile-to-adult transition. Two genes, LIN28 and MKRN3, are known to be as …
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