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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Máté Varga, on 21 July 2016
It seemed like an ordinary morning, with the lecture on Drosophila genetics due to start at 8 o’clock. But when the professor walked in something remarkable happened: instead of starting ...Posted by Vicki Metzis, on 16 July 2016
This week I attended a meeting with Paul Nurse, director of the The Francis Crick Institute, who spoke about the potential implications of the pending Brexit on scientific research at the ...Posted by Caroline Dillard, on 12 July 2016
Caroline Dillard and Cédric Maurange (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, IBDM, Marseille) Drosophila neural stem cells as a cancer model Transformation of a cell into a cancer cell is a complex ...Posted by cdemers, on 5 July 2016
Unraveling Development Embryonic development is a complex and regulated spatiotemporal ensemble of signaling cues that control cell differentiation. Most of what we now know comes from experimenting directly on embryos. ...Posted by Gary McDowell, on 2 July 2016
I woke up this morning to a Facebook reminder of where I was 5 years ago. I was in Lille, France, on a 2 month sabbatical at Université Lille 1 ...Posted by the Node, on 30 June 2016
On the 23rd of June the United Kingdom held a referendum on whether to remain a member of the European Union or to leave. Prior to the vote, Nature reported that ...Posted by the Node, on 30 June 2016
To complement our Questions of the Month, we’ve brought together some post-referendum science links News and Comment Nature reported on science’s reaction to the news, on post-ref limbo, bemoaned the lack of a ...Posted by Thomas Butts, on 26 June 2016
My informal review of YEN this year is by necessity a bit rushed but, for what it is, here it is. Most reviews are very short and pithy/jealous and only ...Posted by Disease Models and Mechanisms, on 20 June 2016
” the ability to reproduce experimental findings remains essential for the forward movement of science and the application of laboratory findings to the clinic” This is an extract from ...Posted by the Node, on 31 May 2016
Earlier this month, two papers were published (from the Brivanlou and Zernicka-Goetz labs) that reported in vitro systems to study development of the human embryo through implantation stages. These experiments ...