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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by jturan91, on 10 June 2016
The Zika virus is making headlines as a major world health crisis linked to a host of neurological conditions. In the cases of microcephaly and Guillain-Barre, the evidence that Zika Virus ...Posted by jturan91, on 7 June 2016
We know that cells are the building blocks of our bodies. But they are not like inert wooden blocks. They are complicated tiny machines that communicate with each other to ...Posted by jturan91, on 19 May 2016
How on earth do we turn into a living, breathing, singing, speaking being, from just the fusion of two cells? Development is fascinating and mysterious. Stem cells are one component ...Posted by the Node, on 6 May 2016
As you may have noticed, we have a series of new Node banners (alongside some of our old favourites). As there isn’t really space to give credit to the authors ...Posted by chris.armit@igmm.ed.ac.uk, on 26 January 2016
A new 3D viewer that allows interactive visualisation of mouse embryo anatomy is now available from the eMouseAtlas website (www.emouseatlas.org/). A slice viewer allows visualisation of anatomy on arbitrary section ...Posted by Beatrice Steinert, on 25 January 2016
Today, when we want to capture an image given by the microscope we can either snap a photograph of it or obtain a computer-generated image. But prior to when ...Posted by the Node, on 18 January 2016
Every year, students from the Woods Hole Embryology course produce some stunning images. It’s now time for readers of the Node to vote which of images from the 2014 Woods Hole ...Posted by jturan91, on 23 December 2015
The three-pound lump under our skulls that allows us to speak, run and function in our daily lives is a mass of dozens of types of minuscule cells joined ...Posted by the Node, on 17 December 2015
How well do you know your developmental biology images? Can you tell your frogs from your flies and your limbs from your antennae? Here at the Node we’ve come up ...Posted by jturan91, on 19 November 2015
As we develop from wads of cells to fully formed humans, each of our organs goes through intricate processes to achieve the right combination and number of cells arranged in ...