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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 ...

April in preprints

Posted by , on 9 May 2017

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. See June’s introductory post for background, and let us know if we missed anything   At the end of April, ...

March in preprints

Posted by , on 6 April 2017

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. See June’s introductory post for background, and let us know if we missed anything March was (yet) another bumper month ...

Biologists find 'skin-and-bones' mechanism underlying zebrafish fin regeneration

Posted by , on 28 March 2017

This Press Release from the University of Oregon was originally posted on Eurekalert.   EUGENE, Ore. March 28, 2017 University of Oregon biologists have figured out how zebrafish perfectly regenerate ...

February in preprints

Posted by , on 6 March 2017

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. See June’s introductory post for background, and let us know if we missed anything   Another month, another bumper crop ...

Seeing the world through fresh eyes

Posted by , on 20 February 2017

There are many different structures in our eyes that work in conjunction to allow us to see. These structures are strikingly similar between different species, from zebrafish to humans. The ...

Gene editing stem cells with CRISPR could help understand brain tumours

Posted by , on 14 February 2017

This report written by Justine Alford and highlighting a recent Development paper originally appeared on the CRUK Science Blog.      Over the past 12 months, the acronym CRISPR has ...

New data reveals how gene knockouts affect whole embryo gene expression

Posted by , on 7 February 2017

New DMDD data released on Expression Atlas reveals the effect of single gene knockouts on the expression of all other genes in the mouse genome. The gene expression profiles of ...

This month on the Node and beyond

Posted by , on 7 February 2017

January was a productive month on the Node, with a variety of developmental biology content from the lab bench and beyond.   Research We heard from the authors of a ...

From our sister journals - December & January

Posted by , on 6 February 2017

Here we highlight some developmental biology related content from other journals published by The Company of Biologists. JCS kicked off 2017 with a Special Issue relevant to many developmental biologists: 3D cell ...

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