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The people behind the papers: Ehsan Pourkarimi & Iestyn Whitehouse

Posted by , on 25 January 2017

How does a developing embryo coordinate DNA replication with gene transcription? This fundamental question is the focus of today’s paper, recently published in eLife. We caught up with lead author Ehsan Pourkarimi ...

The people behind the papers: Miguel Brun-Usan & Isaac Salazar-Ciudad

Posted by , on 4 January 2017

The tenth paper featured in this series comes from the first issue of Development for 2017, and uses computational modelling to investigate the importance of different cellular processes in spiral ...

The people behind the papers: Andrew Schiffmacher & Lisa Taneyhill

Posted by , on 16 December 2016

The neural crest is a remarkable multipotent cell population that has become a model system for how epithelial cells become mesenchymal and migrate during development. In today’s post, we feature ...

An interview with Doug Melton

Posted by , on 15 December 2016

This interview by Aidan Maartens first appeared in Development Volume 143, Issue 24.   Doug Melton is Xander University Professor at Harvard University, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute ...

The people behind the papers: Fernando Ferreira & Min Zhao

Posted by , on 14 December 2016

Today’s paper comes from the final issue of Development for 2016, and reveals a link between bioelectricity and reactive oxygen species during tail regeneration in Xenopus. We caught up with first author ...

The people behind the papers: Amelia Joy Thompson, Sarah K Foster & Kristian Franze

Posted by , on 30 November 2016

Today’s paper comes from the latest issue of Nature Neuroscience, and shows that in addition to chemical cues, mechanical signals are vital for axon pathfinding during brain development. We caught up ...

An interview with David McClay

Posted by , on 30 November 2016

This interview by Aidan Maartens first appeared in Development Volume 143, Issue 23.   David McClay is the Arthur S. Pearse Professor of Biology at Trinity College of Arts and ...

The people behind the papers: James Nichols

Posted by , on 29 November 2016

Today’s paper comes from the latest issue of Development, and reveals a link between phenotypic variability, cell fate switching and epigenetic silencing in zebrafish. Lead author James T. Nichols, who carried out the ...

An interview with Kathryn Anderson

Posted by , on 15 November 2016

This interview by Aidan Maartens first featured in Development, Volume 143, Issue 22.    Kathryn Anderson is Professor and Chair of the Developmental Biology Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute in ...

An interview with Paola Arlotta

Posted by , on 3 November 2016

This interview by Catarina Vicente first featured in Development.   Paola Arlotta is a neurodevelopmental biologist based at the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology in Boston, MA, USA. ...

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