developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 9 February 2011
What I love about developmental biology is the collaborative nature of the field. The vast majority of biologists feel that by sharing ideas, data, and reagents, we can learn more ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 5 January 2011
Cancer and stem cells are two very loaded biology concepts, and more frequently can be found in the same discussion. Stem cells within tumors are able to divide and provide ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 8 December 2010
We can all articulate the importance of using model organisms to understand biology, but many of us fall short in our understanding of some of the more uncommon model organisms. ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 8 November 2010
I was lucky in graduate school and my postdoctoral research—I was a microscopist working on a transparent organism (C. elegans). Some microscopists don’t have that luxury, but have developed amazing ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 19 October 2010
Somites are the building blocks of the vertebrae, skeletal muscle and dermis…literally and figuratively. Somites define the segmented features of vertebrate embryos, and are repeated blocks of epithelial cells formed ...