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Organelle Assembly in Vivo: The Love-Hate Relationship of Thermodynamic and Active Processes

Posted by , on 6 March 2017

Comment on ”Independent active and thermodynamic processes govern nucleolus assembly in vivo”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114 (6), 1335-1340, (2017). Hanieh Falahati, Lewis–Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, ...

Position for Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cardiovascular Genetics, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Posted by , on 5 March 2017

A postdoctoral research fellow position is available in the laboratory of Gregor Andelfinger at the CHU Sainte Justine Research Center, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Our work focuses on the genetic origins ...

New signal revealed for birth of blood stem cells in vertebrates

Posted by , on 1 March 2017

Jamie R. Genthe and Wilson K. Clements   When blood goes bad, a replacement is often needed. Each year, thousands of patients in the US receive bone marrow transplants to treat ...

In Development this week (Vol. 144, Issue 5)

Posted by , on 28 February 2017

Here are the highlights from the new issue of Development:   Adding a new layer of complexity to pre-eclampsia Pre-eclampsia (PE) is a pregnancy complication associated with abnormal formation of ...

Matching neurons to limbs: an evolutionary perspective on motor system development

Posted by , on 24 February 2017

Comment on “Divergent Hox Coding and Evasion of Retinoid Signaling Specifies Motor Neurons Innervating Digit Muscles” Neuron 93, 1–14, February 22, 2017. Alana I. Mendelsohn, Departments of Neuroscience and Biochemistry ...

Seeing the world through fresh eyes

Posted by , on 20 February 2017

There are many different structures in our eyes that work in conjunction to allow us to see. These structures are strikingly similar between different species, from zebrafish to humans. The ...

Uncovering Non-canonical Roles of E-cadherin Beyond Cell Adhesion

Posted by , on 14 February 2017

Broad perspective Successful division was an essential criterion for establishing the cell as the basic unit of life on earth. Later, cell-cell adhesion made possible the evolution of multicellular life ...

In Development this week (Vol. 144, Issue 4)

Posted by , on 14 February 2017

Here are the highlights from the new issue of Development:   A new mechanism in ESC lineage priming Histone demethylases have recognized roles in the control of gene expression during ...

Transposons in Embryo Space – TRACER maps in EMAGE

Posted by , on 9 February 2017

A recent publication in Developmental Biology by (Armit et al., 2017) describes how the TRACER dataset can be spatially compared with in situ hybridisation gene expression profiles.   The TRACER ...

Forgotten classics: Cut and paste embryology

Posted by , on 2 February 2017

Hörstadius, S. 1939. The mechanics of sea urchin development, studied by operative methods. Biological Reviews 14(2):132-179. Recommended by Bob Goldstein, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   Sven Hörstadius ...

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