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The people behind the papers - Rémi-Xavier Coux & Ruth Lehmann

Posted by , on 5 April 2018

Development and homeostasis depend crucially on the maintenance of cell identity, and in gamete-producing tissues the somatic/germline distinction is paramount. A recent paper in Development explores how cell identity is ...

Collaborative PhD position at the Turing Centre in Marseille

Posted by , on 4 April 2018

Muscle building: bridging molecular order to macroscopic morphogenesis   PHD2018-11 (PDF link)

March in preprints

Posted by , on 4 April 2018

One of the most talked about preprints this month was a corrigendum to that Nature Methods paper reporting widespread off-target mutations following CRISPR-Cas9 editing in  mice. The paper was challenged quickly on ...

PhD position: Single-cell elucidation of the evolution of an embryonic transcriptional programme

Posted by , on 3 April 2018

The project: Single-cell approaches are revolutionizing developmental biology. We can now  trace in time the behavior of each cell in a live developing organism (1). In parallel, single-cell transcriptomics and ...

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