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The people behind the papers – Ivette Olivares-Castiñeira & Marta Llimargas

Posted by , on 21 July 2017

The Drosophila tracheal system is a powerful model for understanding the genetic and cell biological control of tubulogenesis. In their new PLoS Genetics paper, Ivette Olivares-Castiñeira and her PI Marta Llimargas of ...

The people behind the papers – Kimberly McArthur & Joseph Fetcho

Posted by , on 20 July 2017

Development depends on cells coming together in the right place to form functioning tissues. Our latest paper in this series was published recently in Current Biology and asks what happens to ...

The people behind the papers: Lijun Chi and Paul Delgado-Olguin

Posted by , on 9 June 2017

Development of the placental vasculature – known as the labyrinth – is critical for foetal development. Today’s paper comes from the most recent issue of Development and addresses the signalling events ...

The people behind the papers: Gabriel Krens and Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Posted by , on 25 May 2017

Cell sorting is a critical process during development, as differently specified cells are segregated to the right parts of the embryo. Differences in cell adhesion and cortical tension are thought ...

The people behind the papers: Jun-Ho Ha, Hyo-Jun Lee and Chung-Mo Park

Posted by , on 11 May 2017

Our 20th instalment of this series comes from South Korea and features an investigation into the molecular basis of how temperature influences developmental transitions in Arabidopsis seedlings, recently published in Developmental Cell. We ...