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September in preprints

Posted by , on 5 October 2016

Our monthly trawl for preprints from developmental biology and related research. Previous posts can be found here.    Preprints roll on, and this month’s selection is a reminder of how developmental biology is based ...

Research into fly development provides insights into blood vessel formation

Posted by , on 29 September 2016

Researchers working with flies at IRB Barcelona describe that the concentration of some small intracellular organelles determines the branching capacity of tracheal cells.   Tracheal cells are analogous to the ...

The people behind the papers: Adam Johnston

Posted by , on 26 September 2016

Today we feature an upcoming paper in Cell Stem Cell that investigates the role of Schwann cell precursors in the multi-tissue regeneration of the adult mammalian distal digit tip.  We caught up with lead ...

Seeking out the sweet spot in cancer therapeutics: an interview with Lewis Cantley

Posted by , on 23 September 2016

  “…had you told me when I was 25 years old that I would be the director of a cancer center I would have been incredulous, given that I was ...

Where does blood come from in the first place and how is it made?

Posted by , on 14 September 2016

Commentary on Transforming Growth Factor β Drives Hemogenic Endothelium Programming and the Transition to Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Developmental Cell, Volume 38, Issue 4, p358–370, 22 August 2016   Each ...

From our sister journals - August 2016

Posted by , on 6 September 2016

Here we highlight some developmental biology related content from other journals published by The Company of Biologists. Meritxell Huch, Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, was ...

August in preprints

Posted by , on 5 September 2016

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

This month on the Node

Posted by , on 5 September 2016

August was meant to be a quiet month, with researchers (in Europe, at least)  leaving the lab for a well earned break and winding down before the start of the ...

Exciting news on neural stem cell niches: stunning research from Fiona Doetsch's lab

Posted by , on 26 August 2016

http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(16)30163-1 Sense & Sensibility: niche signals regulate neural stem cells in an age-dependent manner paper feature by Thomas Schwarz-Romond Tissue specific stem cell niches provide lifelong support for adult stem ...

The people behind the papers: Thomas Lozito

Posted by , on 22 August 2016

Today’s paper is from the latest issue of Development and investigates the mechanisms of lizard tail regeneration, revealing distinct cell behaviours in the proximal versus distal regenerating tail. Today’s person is Thomas Lozito, ...

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