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A technique dating back to 1935 is recovered for cancer research in flies

Posted by , on 15 September 2015

A study conducted by ICREA researcher Cayetano González, at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), and published in Nature Protocols describes a forgotten technique used in the fly ...

Tumour suppressor genes curb growth in neighbouring cells

Posted by , on 28 August 2015

The healthy development of an organism depends on its tissues and organs growing to the right size, stopping when they need to, and maintaining stability in their form and function. ...

Key protein in cilia assembly identified

Posted by , on 21 August 2015

The group led by ICREA Research Professor Cayetano Gonzalez at IRB Barcelona, in collaboration with the group of Professor Giuliano Callaini from the University of Siena in Italy, has published ...

The protein that keeps cells static is found to play a key role in cell movement

Posted by , on 14 August 2015

The protein E-Cadherin (E-Cad) is a kind of adhesive that keeps cells tightly bound together, thus favouring the organisation of tissues and organs. Scientists at the Institute for Research in ...

From our sister journals- July 2015

Posted by , on 28 July 2015

Here is some developmental biology related content from other journals published by The Company of Biologists.         Drosophila helps to elucidate the effects of radiation therapy Children ...

Active hematopoietic sites in Drosophila Adult

Posted by , on 11 June 2015

Studies in the last decade have established Drosophila as the best invertebrate model to study hematopoiesis. Blood cell development in the fruitfly has been shown to have similarities to that ...

Molecular Control of Embryonic Development

Posted by , on 22 May 2015

On the twentieth anniversary of the Nobel Prize for research in fly embryonic development By Peng Kate Gao 2015 marks the twentieth year since developmental biologists Edward B. Lewis, Christiane ...

The 2014 European Fly Neurobiology Conference

Posted by , on 15 May 2015

The ‘Biennial European Fly Neurobiology Conference’ is now more commonly known by its other name, ‘Neurofly’. And as of today, it has been about 7 months since the last Neurofly, which ...

An interview with Juergen Knoblich

Posted by , on 12 May 2015

This interview first appeared in Development.   Juergen Knoblich is a senior scientist and deputy scientific director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. We met ...

The SDB-BSDB Interview Chain: Niteace Whittington interviews Wendy Gu

Posted by , on 8 May 2015

Last year we interviewed Niteace Whittington, who won the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) poster prize at the 2014 meeting in Seattle. Niteace’s prize was attendance at the joint meeting ...

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