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Loving zebrafish with all my heart

Posted by , on 8 June 2012

I would have thought that all organisms heal a broken heart the same way humans do (bad movies and cheap wine), but I was wrong.  Some organisms, such as zebrafish ...

Vote for a Development cover – Woods Hole – round 2

Posted by , on 31 May 2012

The winner of the previous round of images from the 2011 Woods Hole embryology course appeared on the cover of Development a few weeks ago. But which of the following ...

Winning image: six zebrafish

Posted by , on 29 May 2012

Earlier this month, you voted for your favourite image from the International Course on Developmental Biology. The winner, exactly 100 votes ahead of number 2, was this zebrafish embryo image: ...

Publishing 'dirty' data

Posted by , on 22 May 2012

How much does it matter that the images we publish are neat and tidy? It’s a question I’ve been dealing with over the past couple of weeks, and I wanted ...

Smart signaling in the developing brain

Posted by , on 10 May 2012

The WNT pathway functions in so many processes during development that it is easy to be jealous of its multi-tasking abilities.  A recent paper in Development describes the role of ...

Images from the International Course on Developmental Biology

Posted by , on 3 May 2012

One of the covers of Development this year is reserved for an image from the International Course on Developmental Biology, UNAB, Quintay-Chile. This course ran from 5-17 January in Chile. ...

Skate wins cover contest

Posted by , on 2 May 2012

The winner of the first round of images from the 2011 Woods Hole Embryology Course is in. This beautiful image of a skate got almost half of the votes cast, ...

Stem cells at home

Posted by , on 12 April 2012

We depend on our own comfort zones to keep us grounded, and stem cells are no different.  A recent paper in Development describes how the adhesion that keeps a stem ...

Vote for a Development cover - Woods Hole - round 1

Posted by , on 11 April 2012

Last year you selected four covers for Development from images taken by students of the 2010 Woods Hole Embryology Course. These were the four winners: The students of the 2011 ...

Differences between mammals begin early in development

Posted by , on 8 March 2012

The progress of stem cell research depends on the ability to grow stem cells in culture.  Embryonic stem (ES) cells from some organisms, such as humans, have proven difficult to ...

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