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Green Eggs and Serrano Ham

Posted by , on 4 April 2014

Scenes from Seville (my pics) and a transgenic embryo  (A. Fernandez-Miñan) After over a decade working in Europe, I recently returned to Costa Rica to start a lab at the ...

Approaching limb regeneration in an emerging model crustacean

Posted by , on 1 April 2014

My name is Nikos. I just finished my PhD in the lab of Michalis Averof , starting my thesis at IMBB, in Crete and completing it at IGFL, in Lyon. ...

Learning to Inject Platynereis Embryos

Posted by , on 31 March 2014

Hello!  My name is Maggie Pruitt and I am a postdoc in Dr. Stephan Schneider’s laboratory at Iowa State University.  At the beginning of this year, I had the wonderful ...

Planarians…the key to regenerative medicine?

Posted by , on 31 March 2014

  Of all the animal models used in biology, the freshwater planarian flatworm is one of the most fascinating: first because roughly 10% of all planarian cells are stem cells, ...

Get that out of my eye!

Posted by , on 24 March 2014

This is the first of several Node Posts that the Developmental Neurobiology Seminar Class at Reed College in Portland, Oregon (USA) will be posting. Each week, 12 advanced undergraduate students ...

A study using Drosophila flies reveals new regulatory mechanisms of cell migration

Posted by , on 21 March 2014

A study by Sofia J. Araújo, a Ramón y Cajal researcher with the Morphogenesis in Drosophila lab at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), elucidates the genetic regulation of ...

Studying genealogy in cell clones

Posted by , on 18 March 2014

A new method to study the beauty and relevance of cellular lineage     The origin of living beings has always interested, intrigued and fascinated curious researchers during the history ...

In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 7)

Posted by , on 18 March 2014

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   A vascular scaffold for islet nerve growth In many organs, the processes of vascularisation and innervation are frequently interdependent. ...

Cellularization in Drosophila, University of Chicago Journal Club

Posted by , on 15 March 2014

Cellularization in Drosophila embryos is quite the remarkable process. After fertilization, nuclear division occurs rapidly but without cell membrane formation, leading to a syncytial embryo with many nuclei in a ...

Generation of Embryoid Bodies: a great tool to study vascular development

Posted by , on 4 March 2014

Hello, my name is Helena and I am a PhD student within the Vascular Signalling Laboratory led by Mariona Graupera in the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) in Barcelona. It ...

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