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Skate wins again

Posted by , on 11 December 2012

Remember the skate image by David Gold, Lynn Kee, and Meghan Morrissey of the 2011 Woods Hole embryology course? It won the cover competition in April, and appeared on the ...

Nobel Laureates Warn Against Going over the Fiscal Cliff

Posted by , on 11 December 2012

Although I’m not a fan of simply reposting press releases, this press release from The Coalition for the Life Sciences, about a letter-campaign by Nobel Laureates to emphasize the importance ...

December 11

Posted by , on 11 December 2012

Today’s recommended paper is: Free Extracellular Diffusion Creates the Dpp Morphogen Gradient of the Drosophila Wing Disc Shaohua Zhou et al. (2012) Current Biology 22 (8), 668-675 Submitted by Barry ...

December 10

Posted by , on 10 December 2012

Today’s recommended paper is: A Human Stem Cell Model of Early Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology in Down Syndrome Yichen Shi et al. (2012) Science Translational Medicine 4 (124), 124ra29 Submitted by ...

December 9

Posted by , on 9 December 2012

Today’s recommended paper is: Morphogenesis of outflow tract rotation during cardiac development: The pulmonary push concept Roderick W.C. Scherptong et al. (2012) Developmental Dynamics 241 (9), 1413-1422 Submitted by Heather ...

December 8

Posted by , on 8 December 2012

Today’s recommended paper is: Variation of BMP3 contributes to dog breed skull diversity Jeffrey J. Schoenebeck et al. (2012) PLOS Genetics 8 (8), e1002849 Submitted by Katherine Brown ” Elaine ...

December 7

Posted by , on 7 December 2012

Today’s recommended paper is: Normal Spastin Gene Dosage Is Specifically Required for Axon Regeneration Michelle C. Stone et al. (2012) Cell Reports 2, 1340–1350 Submitted by Nik Papageorgiou: “The reason ...

Book review: Everything you always wanted to know about auxin but were afraid to ask

Posted by , on 6 December 2012

This book review originally appeared in Development. Sabrina Sabatini reviews “Auxin Signaling: From Synthesis to Systems Biology ” (Edited by Mark Estelle, Dolf Weijers, Karin Ljung and Ottoline Leyser). Book ...

December 6

Posted by , on 6 December 2012

Today’s recommended paper is: Coupling Mechanical Deformations and Planar Cell Polarity to Create Regular Patterns in the Zebrafish Retina Guillaume Salbreux et al. (2012) PLOS Computational Biology 8 (8), e1002618 ...

December 5

Posted by , on 5 December 2012

Today’s recommended paper is: In toto live imaging of mouse morphogenesis and new insights into neural tube closure R’ada Massarwa and Lee Niswander (2013) Development 140 (1), 226-236 Submitted by ...

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