This month on the Node- May 2015
Posted by the Node, on 1 June 2015
May was one of the busiest months in the history of the Node, with over 40 new posts! Here are some of the highlights:
Research:
– Briana discussed how she and her colleagues generated human lung organoids in vitro, work published in eLife.
– How did dinosaur snouts evolve into beaks? Arhat Abzhanov discussed his recent paper in Evolution, looking at the Evo Devo of birds and their beaks.
– Paolo posted about his paper in Development, testing the use of chromobodies in zebrafish, an alternative for protein detection in living organisms that brings together the advantages of antibodies and live imaging.
– Is there a relationship between stemness and cell motion? Daisuke examined the motion of human keratinocyte stem cells.
– Luke wrote about his paper in Disease Models & Mechanisms, using anteroventral noradrenergic cells in Xenopus embryos as a model to study neuroblastoma.
– And Peg and Bridget showed that brain feminization requires active repression of masculinization via DNA methylation, in a paper in Nature Neuroscience.
A day in the life:
This month saw two new contributions to our ongoing model organisms series!
– A day in the life of a Marchantia lab– on liverwort developmental biology done in the Arteaga-Vázquez lab, Mexico
– A day in the of a lizard lab– regeneration and wound healing in leopard geckos in the Vickaryous lab, Canada.
Interviews:
– We reposted an interview with Juergen Knoblich, originally published in Development, where Juergen discusses his research on flies and more recently on cerebral organoids, and shares his thoughts on the funding situation and recent technological developments.
– And the interview chain continues! Wendy Gu, the winner of the poster prize at the recent BSDB Spring meeting was interviewed for the Node.
Also on the Node:
– Rie Saba travelled from London to Stuttgart, sponsored by a Development travelling fellowship, to learn how to induce endocardial cells from ESCs/iPSCs.
– Over two decades since the publication of ‘The Atlas of Mouse Development’, a new online resource now provides free access to the histological images and their annotations.
– How big should a lab be? Answer May’s ‘Question of the Month!’
– And 2015 marks 20 years since Edward Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus won the Nobel Prize for their discoveries on the genetic control of early embryonic development. Peng revisited their work and its impact on developmental biology.
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