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What do microglia do in human neurodevelopmental disorders?

Posted by , on 11 September 2023

In a recent review published in Acta Neuropathologica, Matuleviciute, Akinluyi & co-authors focus on the evidence obtained from humans to examine how microglia, the brain’s macrophages, participate in brain development. ...

A regeneration retrospective: go fish

Posted by , on 8 September 2023

This post is part of the regeneration retrospective series. First, I’d be remiss not to acknowledge that most of my posts have been on vertebrate systems when many invertebrates are ...

A regeneration retrospective: hands-on hard graft

Posted by , on 7 September 2023

This post is part of the regeneration retrospective series. Yesterday, we went through a couple of examples of amphibian tail regeneration. Limb regeneration is another example of epimorphic regeneration, which ...

A regeneration retrospective: a budding tale

Posted by , on 6 September 2023

This post is part of the regeneration retrospective series. Epimorphic regeneration, the process of replacing lost appendages, is probably the most impressive example of tetrapod vertebrate regeneration. Vertebrate appendages, such ...

A regeneration retrospective: time heals all wounds

Posted by , on 5 September 2023

This post is part of the regeneration retrospective series. Wound healing is a crucial process in both regenerating and non-regenerating tissues. In addition to restoring the biological function of a ...

A regeneration retrospective: muscle memory lane

Posted by , on 4 September 2023

This post is part of the regeneration retrospective series. Unlike many other mammalian tissues, adult skeletal muscle has a remarkable aptitude for regeneration. Even after severe and repeated damage, functional ...

A regeneration retrospective: planarians aplenty

Posted by , on 3 September 2023

This post is part of the regeneration retrospective series. In some ways, it’s difficult to imagine a better model of regeneration than the planarian flatworm. These comical, googly-eyed creatures have ...

A regeneration retrospective

Posted by , on 3 September 2023

The field of regenerative biology has grown considerably since the millennium and, with the creation of the International Society of Regeneration Biology a couple of years ago (Poss and Tanaka, ...

July in preprints

Posted by , on 1 August 2023

A list of developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints that came out in July.

June in preprints

Posted by , on 5 July 2023

A list of developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints that came out in June.

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