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Shaping the embryo towards gastrulation

Posted by , on 13 May 2020

Kyprianou, C., Christodoulou, N., Hamilton, R.S. et al. Basement membrane remodelling regulates mouse embryogenesis. Nature (2020). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2264-2 Morphogenesis is a complicated network of processes that involve cell shape changes, cell movements ...

Lockdown in Shanghai

Posted by , on 13 May 2020

This piece recently featured on The Company of Biologists’ WeChat Channel. For more information about our efforts to engage Chinese researchers, read Annabel Nicholson’s post from last month.     ...

Call for papers

Posted by , on 12 May 2020

Chan, Z., Santella, L., Tuszynski, J. and Gordon, R. (eds.) (2020) Waves in Fertilization, Cell Division and Embryogenesis [special issue of BioSystems, In preparation] [WAVS].  https://www.journals.elsevier.com/biosystems/call-for-papers/waves-in-fertilization-cell-division-and-embryogenesis   Deadline changed to ...

Research Highlight #1: Inhibition of cell cycle regulators alters the EHT

Posted by , on 12 May 2020

Hello everyone! My name is Alessandro, I am a postdoc in love with science, stem cells and blood! I am also a big fan of the Node, The Company of ...

An update from Development

Posted by , on 11 May 2020

I wanted to take a couple of minutes to update you on how things are going at Development. I imagine many of you will be reading this on a laptop ...

Developmental Biology Write Club, Post #1

Posted by , on 8 May 2020

For other posts in this series click here Hello!  Recently, I’ve been tweeting writer’s advice from @jbwallingford using the hashtag: #DevBiolWriteClub.  I’m psyched that The Node is now letting me ...

Genetics Unzipped podcast: Out of Africa - uncovering history and diversity in the human genome

Posted by , on 7 May 2020

We explore the genetic diversity in Africa and discover how researchers can read the cultural and historical stories written in DNA.

Birds take flight with help from Sonic hedgehog

Posted by , on 6 May 2020

A Press Release from Development Flight feathers are amazing evolutionary innovations that allowed birds to conquer the sky. A study led by Matthew Towers (University of Sheffield, UK) and Marian ...

Crafting plots for movies

Posted by , on 6 May 2020

In a previous blog I explained how animated plots can be made to illustrate the dynamics of data. Animated plots go nicely together with the movies from which the data ...

UK South West Zebrafish Meeting 2020 - Registration and Abstract Submission now open!

Posted by , on 5 May 2020

We are excited to announce that the UK South West Zebrafish Meeting 2020 will be hosted by the University of Exeter as a virtual meeting to take place on Friday ...

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