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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by the Node, on 1 October 2018
This is the latest dispatch from a recipient of a Development Travelling Fellowship, funded by our publisher The Company of Biologists. Learn more about the scheme, including how to apply, here, ...Posted by Svend Dahl-Jensen, on 19 September 2018
Water is a fascinating substance. Its behavior sets a lot of interesting constraints on both how the surface of our world is shaped geologically and how life on said surface ...Posted by Stefania Gutierrez, on 28 August 2018
Have you heard of an animal that can lose most of its body tissues and the remnant tissues aggregate to regenerate the lost parts and recovery its original form? Do ...Posted by dbsste, on 23 August 2018
It’s an age-old mystery of the heart: do opposites attract, or will like do better with like? We can now answer this pressing question, at least for Drosophila cardioblasts: cells ...Posted by Julian Lui, on 9 August 2018
About a decade ago I came to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to work with my mentor, Jeff Baron, to study childhood growth and to tackle one of the ...Posted by Scutoids, on 3 August 2018
In LM Escudero´s group, we like developmental biology, mathematical biology and computational biology. We try to be imaginative and get inspiration from simple things… such as a toilet paper ...Posted by Alberto Rosello-Diez, on 2 August 2018
Alexandra Joyner and Alberto Roselló-Díez tell us the story behind their recent paper in PLoS Biology1. Today we have tried a new experiment (we cannot help it). Instead of ...Posted by Sandra Edwards, on 18 July 2018
It’s hard to describe with words how my experience has been at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, but I’m going to give it a try… My ...Posted by alexislanza, on 10 July 2018
It’s undoubtedly the middle of summer here in Saint Augustine, Florida. Daily temperatures are soaring into the 90s, and we’re grateful if the humidity dips below 70%. Thankfully, the Seaver ...Posted by Nicolas Rivron, on 27 June 2018
In our recently published paper1, we showed that mouse stem cells self-organize into blastocyst-like structures, that we termed blastoids. Because blastoids can be generated in large numbers, can be finely ...