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Nuclear sponges in embryonic stem cells

Posted by , on 17 June 2014

Once upon a time, physicists got curious about the cytoskeleton. They characterised the cytoskeleton – using tools of soft matter, statistical and polymer physics – as a mesoscale material whose ...
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Of mice and zebrafish

Posted by , on 16 June 2014

This story starts with me shaking and nervous and stumbling through my mid-term thesis committee meeting presentation. Not only was I presenting the results from the first half of my ...
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In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 12)

Posted by , on 10 June 2014

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Insights into familial dysautonomia Familial dysautonomia (FD) is a germline autosomal recessive disease that is characterized by impaired peripheral ...
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Development Travelling Fellowship: a node connecting Woods Hole with the Stowers Institute

Posted by , on 10 June 2014

June 1st, 2014: Exactly one year after my departure flight from Bologna to Boston to attend the 2013 MBL Embryology course held at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, ...
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Gastrulation: Local actions, global movements and self-organisation

Posted by , on 6 June 2014

Cells move in (still) mysterious ways to achieve morphogenesis. Prominently, cells of an early vertebrate embryo (blastula, a mass of undifferentiated cells) move extensively during gastrulation to generate the three ...
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GATA6 and the power of single cells

Posted by , on 29 May 2014

Any mammal who celebrated Mother’s Day earlier this month realizes how important mothers are for us and the tight bond between them and their children. Forget clean shirts and packed ...
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It's decision time!

Posted by , on 27 May 2014

Decisions, decisions…aren’t those one of our main worries? It is certainly the everyday worry of a stem cell! Understanding stem cell decisions is a central question in the field: how ...
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Researchers identify a new suppressor of breast metastasis to the lung

Posted by , on 27 May 2014

The research headed by Roger Gomis at IRB Barcelona, with the collaboration of Joan Massagué, describes that the loss of the suppressor RARRES3 promotes the colonization of breast cancer cells ...
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In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 11)

Posted by , on 27 May 2014

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Enhanced maturation of induced neurons The ability to reprogram human fibroblasts to neurons in vitro has opened up unprecedented ...
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Use it or Lose it: Insights on neuronal connections in the vertebrate retina

Posted by , on 18 May 2014

This is the final post from our developmental neurobiology seminar this semester. Two students wrote about our discussion of the importance of neuronal activity during synaptogenesis and their professor combined ...
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