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The people behind the papers: Andrew Schiffmacher & Lisa Taneyhill

Posted by , on 16 December 2016

The neural crest is a remarkable multipotent cell population that has become a model system for how epithelial cells become mesenchymal and migrate during development. In today’s post, we feature ...

The people behind the papers: Fernando Ferreira & Min Zhao

Posted by , on 14 December 2016

Today’s paper comes from the final issue of Development for 2016, and reveals a link between bioelectricity and reactive oxygen species during tail regeneration in Xenopus. We caught up with first author ...

This month on the Node and beyond

Posted by , on 5 December 2016

November turned out to be  a bumper month on the Node with posts on research (current and historical), meetings and new resources, as well as interviews and a meeting report. Plus some ...

From our sister journals - November 2016

Posted by , on 2 December 2016

Here we highlight some developmental biology related content from other journals published by The Company of Biologists.   Chisato Kitazawa and colleagues uncover diversity in the morphological changes of early embryogenesis in ...

November in preprints

Posted by , on 2 December 2016

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   This month, we found preprints ...

The elusive hematopoietic stem cells of Drosophila.

Posted by , on 22 November 2016

Drosophila hematopoiesis shows striking resemblance with that of vertebrates, both at the level of signalling molecules and the phase of development. Even though there has been no report of Hematopoietic ...

How to build and evolve a nervous system

Posted by , on 20 November 2016

Author Summary of “A gene regulatory network for apical organ neurogenesis and its spatial control in sea star embryos”.   Alys M. Cheatle Jarvela, Kristen A. Yankura, Veronica F. Hinman Development 2016 143: 4214-4223; doi: 10.1242/dev.134999 Very ...

Mitotic Bookmarking by Esrrb: an unexplored mechanism for implementing cell fate choices?

Posted by , on 18 November 2016

  The story behind our recent paper (Festuccia et al., Nature Cell Biology 2016) started with a serendipitous observation made in a small room of the ISCR (Institute for Stem ...

In Development this week (Vol. 143, Issue 22)

Posted by , on 15 November 2016

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   A postnatal model for Zika virus infection Zika virus (ZIKV) infection results in embryonic microcephaly and has been declared ...

This month on the Node

Posted by , on 11 November 2016

A roundup of the Node’s highlights from October 2016.      October’s most discussed post came from Development’s Executive Editor Katherine Brown, who reported from a workshop on preprints in Cambridge ...

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