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This year for Christmas, gift yourself with an amazing experience. Apply today for the 2018 CSHL Cell and Developmental Biology of Xenopus course.

Posted by , on 18 December 2017

The end of the year is quickly approaching, and if you are anything like me you are scrambling to try to get as much work done as possible before your ...

November in preprints

Posted by , on 5 December 2017

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. Let us know if we missed anything.   This month in preprint news – here at The Company of Biologists, ...

Marie Curie PhD fellowship / Molecular profiling of cells during regeneration: cell diversity and evolution across phyla

Posted by , on 5 December 2017

A 3-year PhD fellowship in evolutionary developmental biology and genomics is available in the lab of Michalis Averof, at the Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (IGFL) in France. The ...

Looking back on the adventure: exploring cell fate conversion with single cell RNA-seq

Posted by , on 21 November 2017

The story behind our recent paper: Liu Z*, Wang L*, Welch JD*, Ma H, Zhou Y, Vaseghi HR, Yu S, Wall JB, Alimohamadi S, Zheng M, Yin CY, Shen WN, ...

Synthetic Materials for Human Organoid Generation and Wound Healing (The Journey)

Posted by , on 20 November 2017

Looking back on the journey of: Ricardo Cruz-Acuña and Miguel Quirós et al. Nature Cell Biology (2017) The Start  On August 2013, I took my first one-way trip departing from ...

October in preprints

Posted by , on 2 November 2017

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. Let us know if we missed anything.   October was a monster month for preprinting (a burst of post-summer ...

Worm study reveals role of stem cells in cancer

Posted by , on 3 October 2017

A new study carried out by the University of Oxford has used flat worms to look at the role of migrating stem cells in cancer Researchers from the Aboobaker lab ...

September in preprints

Posted by , on 3 October 2017

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. See last year’s introductory post for background, and let us know if we missed anything.   This month features butterfly eyespots, brain development in ...

Production of key diabetes cells can be improved

Posted by , on 22 September 2017

In the future diabetics might benefit from getting insulin-regulating beta cells transplanted into their body because their own beta cells are destroyed or less functional. However, according to new stem ...

2017 FASEB Mechanisms in Plant Development Meeting Summary

Posted by , on 5 September 2017

Written By: Margaret Frank, Ora Hazak, Samuel Leiboff, Heike Lindner, Concepcion Manzano, Lena Mueller, Michael Raissig, Annis Richardson, Adam Runions, Sebastian Soyk   A systems biology approach to understanding development ...

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