Infancy is not a quiescent period of testicular development

Congental Glucose- Galactose Malabsorption a Rare Cause of Diarrhea in Infancy Period: Report of Two Cases

Our infancy period

O n June 1st Global Health Action passed the landmark of its first year of publishing and we would like to mark this occasion not only by looking back upon the achievements so far but also to share with you our plans for the future. When we launched the journal with the aim of publishing high-quality research on global health issues with special emphasis on action, only a few open access journa...

Is there a nonverbal period of development?

That the infant lives in a nonverbal sensorimotor world is widely believed. Yet this notion is being challenged by research, in a range of fields, that depicts the young infant as actively attuned to aural speech from birth and able to process and use its sounds and meanings well before the end of the first year. Following a selective review of the research on infant speech processing between b...

Root development: Quiescent center not so mute after all

Many functions have been attributed to the quiescent center of a root apical meristem, from stem cell reservoir to pattern-generating center. Limited laser ablation of the quiescent center in Arabidopsis has now revealed that it acts to suppress differentiation and to maintain the surrounding initial cells as stem cells.

The sensitive period in infancy.