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Sci-Art: Harnessing the power of creativity to promote more inclusive learning opportunities 

Posted by , on 24 July 2024

Read the behind the scenes of creating the SciArt exhibit “Genetic Symphonies: building Hox of life”.   

New genome reveals ancient toolkit

Posted by , on 23 July 2024

Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus is an emerging model to understand stem cell evolution Stem cells can’t hide what they are. At least, that’s the takeaway from the newly sequenced genomes of two ...

Development presents... August webinar on neurodevelopment and disorders

Posted by , on 23 July 2024

Hear from three early-career researchers studying neurodevelopment and disorders. Chaired by Debby Silver.

SciArt Profile: Friedrich Bliem

Posted by , on 17 July 2024

In this SciArt profile, we meet Friedrich Bliem, who has a background in cell biology and scientific illustration and has been creating "Art in Science" paintings for decades.

Development presents... July webinar on plant development

Posted by , on 16 July 2024

Hear from three early-career researchers studying plant development. Chaired by Dominique Bergmann.

June in preprints

Posted by , on 10 July 2024

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv – use these links below to ...

Improving laboratory animal genetic reporting

Posted by , on 9 July 2024

The LAG-R framework (Laboratory Animal Genetic Reporting) has just been published in Nature Communications with Lydia Teboul, head of our Molecular Cell Biology team at the Mary Lyon Centre at ...

Ready, steady, cooooooonga~

Posted by , on 8 July 2024

What is this? The video depicts the formation of the so-called lateral line in a transgenic zebrafish that I took when I was a student in Tatjana Piotrowski’s lab at ...

Behind the paper story: From a tiny primordium to a fully developed gynoecium

Posted by , on 5 July 2024

In this post, I invite you to join me on the journey through our recent article titled “Two Orthogonal Differentiation Gradients Locally Coordinate Fruit Morphogenesis.” This story started when I ...

AdamTS matrix metalloproteases mediate basement membrane heterogeneity required for organ elongation

Posted by , on 4 July 2024

Basement membranes (BMs) are thin, specialized extracellular matrices that surround most tissues and organs (Jayadev and Sherwood, 2017). These meshworks serve as scaffolds for cell adhesion, influencing cell signaling, cell ...

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