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This is what a scientist looks like

Posted by , on 8 February 2012

What do you look like? The website This Is What A Scientist Looks Like wants to know. The site, run by science writer Allie Wilkinson, is collecting photos of scientists ...

SDB Collaborative Resources (CoRe) Launched

Posted by , on 27 January 2012

The Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) has launched SDB Collaborative Resources (CoRe), an online collection of images, movies, and diagrams for learning and teaching developmental biology.  SDB CoRe is a ...

Shaggy hairs and stem cells

Posted by , on 10 January 2012

Our intestinal tissue doesn’t need a New Year’s resolution to keep up its amazing productivity.  Our intestinal epithelium is replenished at breakneck speed in an assembly line that begins with ...

Celestial or Cellular?

Posted by , on 26 December 2011

The Cell: An Image Library™ offers you a little fun this week. Please enjoy our quiz, Celestial or Cellular? Take a look at the images and see if you can ...

Repulsive signals: bad breath, rude manners, and ephrin ligands

Posted by , on 7 December 2011

Satellite cells are muscle stem cells that regenerate injured muscle (remember this earlier post?).  They are highly motile cells that may be able to travel in order to repair injured ...

December desktop calendar

Posted by , on 29 November 2011

And here it is: the last of the desktop wallpaper calendars. In June we celebrated our first birthday, and decided to give all our readers a virtual gift. It ended ...

Hair follicle stem cells – the hairy truth

Posted by , on 10 November 2011

Next time you curse your hair for your bad hair day, consider thanking it instead.  The hair follicle has populations of stem cells that aid in skin regeneration after injury, ...

November desktop calendar

Posted by , on 28 October 2011

It’s that time of the month again, when we upload the desktop calendar for next month. This time an image that you may remember from April – either from the ...

Aging stem cells

Posted by , on 12 October 2011

There are so many factors for a stem cell to consider when deciding cell fates.  A recent paper from Development discusses how the age of a stem cell can affect ...

October desktop calendar

Posted by , on 29 September 2011

It’s the end of the month, which means it’s time to download next month’s desktop calendar. Put it on your own computer and/or on the computers in your lab. There, ...

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