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A new role of an insect steroid hormone: The link between mating and germline stem cells

Posted by , on 11 August 2016

Tomotsune Ameku, Ryusuke Niwa’s lab, University of Tsukuba, Japan.   Steroid hormones have crucial roles in regulating a broad range of biological processes in most multicellular organisms. They are produced ...
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In Development this week (Vol. 143, Issue 15)

Posted by , on 2 August 2016

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Defining Polycomb complexes with AEBP2 Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) directs methylation of histone H3 K27 (H3K27me), a repressive ...
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This month on the Node - July 2016

Posted by , on 1 August 2016

In case you missed it, here’s a round up of our July content, with lots of developmental biology research highlights (inc. microfluidics, zebrafinches and 3D retinas), as well as some art, ...
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Deep into the developmental origins of neural tumours with Drosophila

Posted by , 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 ...
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June in preprints

Posted by , on 6 July 2016

In this new feature, we conduct a trawl for preprints to find the latest developmental biology and related research from the previous month. Scientists are increasingly using preprints as a way of ...
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Replicating spinal cord development with microfluidics

Posted by , 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. ...
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This month on the Node - June 2016

Posted by , on 1 July 2016

This month we welcomed Aidan to the Node, who took over from Cat as Community Manager, and introduced himself here. He’s been enjoying settling in to the Company of Biologists office, and ...
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Novel optogenetic probe for in vivo optogenetic control

Posted by , on 28 June 2016

Optogenetics has been widely used in the study of neural activity and behavior. By using genetic tools to target light-sensitive proteins to one or populations of neurons in specific region ...
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In Development this week (Vol. 143, Issue 12)

Posted by , on 14 June 2016

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   A distinct cartilage programme for bone regeneration Bone healing, for example fracture repair in humans, often involves a cartilage ...
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Sweetening with a pinch of salt: maximized Cas9 efficiency in zebrafish

Posted by , on 14 June 2016

  Alexa Burger, Mosimann lab, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zürich, Switzerland. When I first heard about the “new” genome editing method in early 2013 called CRISPR-Cas9, I ...
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