Well, my 14 years of working for a lab are almost over... and, naturally, we get the announcement that the hospital is shutting down our little lab right as I'm close to making a breakthrough in craniofacial developmental genetics. I believe I've found the genetic pathway AND the master-control cells responsible for the formation of a large portion of the sinuses, upper palate, and nasopharynx. When a certain pair of genes is mutated, the result is a failure of recanalization of the

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