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Genetics Unzipped podcast: A brief history of CRISPR

Posted by , on 8 April 2021

We’re taking a look at the history of gene editing, from the early days of restriction enzymes in the 1960s through to the CRISPR revolution and the very latest base ...

Quintay 2020 – Development cover competition winner!

Posted by , on 6 April 2021

For last month’s Quintay 2020 Development cover competition, just under a thousand votes were cast from across the world in order to pick the best image taken by students of ...

March in preprints

Posted by , on 1 April 2021

Our latest trawl for everything developmental biology and related from the preprint world

Development presents... April webinar

Posted by , on 30 March 2021

Watch talks on sex hormones, enteric nervous system development and the HOX clock

MCC loss during mucociliary epithelium remodeling: new insight into a debated topic and a decade mystery.

Posted by , on 29 March 2021

Introduction In mucociliary epithelia, such as the mammalian airway epithelium or the embryonic epidermis of Xenopus tadpoles, the correct balance between multiciliated cells (MCCs) and secretory cells provides the functional ...

An interview with Cagney Coomer

Posted by , on 29 March 2021

This interview by Aidan Maartens was recently published in Development. Dr Cagney Coomer received her PhD with Ann Morris at the University of Kentucky, where she studied zebrafish retinal development ...

Is it in yet? How the direct transdifferentiation of glia-to-neurons ensures nimble male mating

Posted by , on 25 March 2021

Rachel Bonnington, Carla Lloret Fernández and Laura Molina García tell a tale of transdifferentiation

Genetics Unnzipped podcast: Giving nature a helping hand

Posted by , on 25 March 2021

In the latest Genetics Unzipped podcast we’re taking a look at how humans have made our mark on the species we share the planet with.

The Node is looking for a new Community Manager

Posted by , on 23 March 2021

I joined the Node and Development out of a postdoc in 2016 and now after five enjoyable years I’m moving on. I’ll write something a bit more reflective closer to ...

Quintay 2020 - Development cover competition

Posted by , on 18 March 2021

The competition is closed and the winner has been announced! Last month we heard from the students in the 2020 class of the MBL Practical course in Developmental Biology, which ...

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