Behind the paper stories
Every paper has a story behind it, and we regularly commission scientists to tell theirs. In this collection you’ll discover the highs and the lows, the chance encounters and life changing discoveries from the breadth of developmental biology and stem cell research.
Recent posts
Introducing ACME: the species-versatile fixation and dissociation solution for single cell analysis
Posted by nathankenny, on 1 July 2020
This post highlights the approach and findings of a new research article available in preprint on BioRxiv. This feature was written by members of the Solana lab, authors of that …Now we need arrest… A long journey into the end-of-flowering
Posted by Tom Bennett, on 29 June 2020
By Tom Bennett & Catriona Walker 25th May 2020: Publication TB: The joy of seeing an article finally published is always slightly tempered by the long-drawn out process of …Conversations with my parents (about adult chondrogenesis and spontaneous cartilage repair in the skate, Leucoraja erinacea)
Posted by andrewgillis, on 23 June 2020
One night, during the summer of 2012, I found myself sitting in a cottage in Woods Hole, trying to explain to my parents why I’d spent much of my professional …The story of my heart, from the bottom of my heart (says the Zebrafish)
Posted by PRAGYA SIDHWANI, on 23 June 2020
I started off as quite little—just one cell, in fact. No heart, no brain, no blood flowed in me and yet, somehow I found the motivation in me to divide. …An evolutionary fable: the black pencil and the rubber.
Posted by Cédric Finet, on 18 June 2020
By Héloïse Dufour, Shigeyuki Koshikawa and Cédric Finet In this post we will discuss our recent paper entitled “Temporal flexibility of gene regulatory network underlies a novel wing pattern in …Cilia, Reissner Fiber and Crooked Spines
Posted by Sudipto, on 18 May 2020
Perhaps the most exciting aspect of attending any scientific meeting is the privilege of becoming aware of novel research findings in our fields of interest, prior to their appearance in …Shaping the embryo towards gastrulation
Posted by Christos Kyprianou, on 13 May 2020
Kyprianou, C., Christodoulou, N., Hamilton, R.S. et al. Basement membrane remodelling regulates mouse embryogenesis. Nature (2020). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2264-2 Morphogenesis is a complicated network of processes that involve cell shape changes, cell movements …Zipping up the neural tube
Posted by Matteo Molè, on 21 April 2020
Matteo A. Molè & Andrew J. Copp Molè et al., Integrin-Mediated Focal Anchorage Drives Epithelial Zippering during Mouse Neural Tube Closure. Dev. Cell. 52, 321-334.e6 (2020). Zippering is a striking …
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