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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Seema Grewal, on 26 June 2012
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: BRAF signalling sets astrocyte numbers Astrocytes are the most numerous cell type in the mammalian central nervous system but little ...Posted by Paul O'Neill, on 13 June 2012
We all love the beauty of fluorescence, as neatly highlighted by the prevalence of fluorescent images in the Node’s recent Development cover competition. Such aesthetic data comes at a price ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 8 June 2012
I would have thought that all organisms heal a broken heart the same way humans do (bad movies and cheap wine), but I was wrong. Some organisms, such as zebrafish ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 6 June 2012
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Two-step loss of pluripotency During early development, embryonic cells can form derivatives of all three embryonic layers. This pluripotency, which ...Posted by Ivan Oransky, on 23 May 2012
It was a summer afternoon in 2010 when Adam Marcus and I had the phone conversation that led to the birth of Retraction Watch. We had each been covering medicine ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 22 May 2012
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Mechanical changes in cochlea development Correct patterning of the mammalian inner ear sensory epithelium, which contains mechanosensory outer hair ...Posted by Katherine Brown, on 22 May 2012
How much does it matter that the images we publish are neat and tidy? It’s a question I’ve been dealing with over the past couple of weeks, and I wanted ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 10 May 2012
The WNT pathway functions in so many processes during development that it is easy to be jealous of its multi-tasking abilities. A recent paper in Development describes the role of ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 8 May 2012
Here are the research highlights from the current issue of Development: Laminin cue for epithelial polarity During the development of many animal organs, mesenchymal cells co-ordinately polarize to form epithelial ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 27 April 2012
Each year, the British Society for Developmental Biology awards the Beddington Medal for the best PhD thesis in developmental biology. At the 2012 BSDB meeting, this award went to Boyan ...