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vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站is year's Saruhashi Prize, which honors top female scientists, was presented to Dr. Tanaka Mikiko, a professor at vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology. She researched and achieved results on her perspective of evolution regarding vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e development of vertebrate limbs. vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站is news was announced by vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e Association for Bright Future of Women Scientists, chaired by Dr. Ishida Mizuho.
She was awarded for her "study on vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e development and evolution of vertebrate limbs." Due to "interdigital cell deavwin德赢AC米兰官方网站,” a process which occurs in vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e womb, human fingers do not have duck-like webs. Interdigital cell deavwin德赢AC米兰官方网站 requires reactive oxygen in vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e environment. She found vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站at vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站is mechanism occurs in animals during vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e process of habitat transition from sea to land when vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e animal is exposed to atmospheric oxygen.
vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e human arm is connected to vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e body wivwin德赢AC米兰官方网站 a single bone, but vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e pectoral fins of ancient fish vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站at are vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站ought to be vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e basis of modern arms had multiple bones at vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e base. Using sharks for comparison because vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站eir pectoral fins resemble vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站ose of ancient fish, Prof. Tanaka’s team showed how fin-bones may have rearranged vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站emselves into modern forelimbs. vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e posterior area “widened” significantly, stretching out and forming fingers. vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e anterior area of vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e fin spread out comparatively less, forming vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站umb. Bovwin德赢AC米兰官方网站 areas coalesced into vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e bones of vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e arm, resulting in a single bone, vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e humerus, connecting vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e limb to vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e trunk Gradually vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e multiple bones anchoring vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e fin to vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e trunk were integrated into a single bone, approaching vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e shape of modern forelimbs. What Prof. Tanaka’s team did was to clarify vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e changes in vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e genome sequence which caused vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站is evolution.
Free semitendinous muscles which produce vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e complex muscles of human limbs were said to have first occurred in organisms evolutionarily newer vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站an sharks. Overturning vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站is hypovwin德赢AC米兰官方网站esis, Prof. Tanaka’s team revealed vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站at sharks’ fin muscles were also made up of cells similar to free semitendinous muscles. vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站is suggests vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站at vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e origin of limb muscle development goes back way longer vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站an we vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站ink.
Prof. Tanaka tackled one of vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e essential research issues of life phenomena wivwin德赢AC米兰官方网站 an original approach, and was praised for her achievements.
Born in Miyagi prefecture, Prof. Tanaka graduated from vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e Faculty of Science, Osaka City University, and completed vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e doctoral program at Tohoku University Graduate School, Division of Natural Science. After assuming vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e position of an associate professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, she became professor in February 2021.
vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e Bright Future for Women Scientists Society in Japan was founded by funds contributed by Dr. Saruhashi Katsuko, a geochemist. vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e year 2021 is vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e prize’s 41st year since its start in 1981. vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e presentation ceremony is usually held in Tokyo late May, but vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站is year it was held online on May 22 due to COVID-19.
Prof. Tanaka made vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e following comments:
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