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New genome reveals ancient toolkit

Posted by , on 23 July 2024

Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus is an emerging model to understand stem cell evolution Stem cells can’t hide what they are. At least, that’s the takeaway from the newly sequenced genomes of two ...

June in preprints

Posted by , on 10 July 2024

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv – use these links below to ...

Ready, steady, cooooooonga~

Posted by , on 8 July 2024

What is this? The video depicts the formation of the so-called lateral line in a transgenic zebrafish that I took when I was a student in Tatjana Piotrowski’s lab at ...

AdamTS matrix metalloproteases mediate basement membrane heterogeneity required for organ elongation

Posted by , on 4 July 2024

Basement membranes (BMs) are thin, specialized extracellular matrices that surround most tissues and organs (Jayadev and Sherwood, 2017). These meshworks serve as scaffolds for cell adhesion, influencing cell signaling, cell ...

A Transgenic Optical Tool Planning Resource

Posted by , on 3 July 2024

Since the sequencing of GFP in the 1990’s, interrogation of biological questions using transgenic model organisms expressing genetically engineered fluorescent molecules has exploded across many biological fields.  Living organisms are ...

How we found a switch from genitalia to limbs

Posted by , on 28 June 2024

While the vertebrate body consists of diverse structures formed during embryogenesis, there is a limited number of genetic regulatory modules that are repurposed in different developmental contexts. For example, the ...

Ascidian embryonic cells offer clues to the evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest cells and neuromesodermal progenitors

Posted by , on 11 June 2024

Read the story behind the paper "Ascidian embryonic cells with properties of neural-crest cells and neuromesodermal progenitors of vertebrates".

May in preprints

Posted by , on 7 June 2024

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv – use these links below to ...

 Ancient origin of the vertebrate sympathetic nervous system

Posted by , on 1 June 2024

A recent paper “Neural crest origin of sympathetic neurons at the dawn of vertebrates” challenges the prevailing dogma that the sympathetic ganglia arose only in jawed vertebrates. Instead, based on ...

How do jellyfish regenerate their tentacles?

Posted by , on 27 May 2024

Read the story behind the paper "Distinct stem-like cell populations facilitate functional regeneration of the Cladonema medusa tentacle".

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