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In Development this week (Vol. 139, Issue 15)

Posted by , on 10 July 2012

Here are the research highlights from the current issue from Development:   Cxcr4a sets proliferative response to Hh The Hedgehog (Hh) pathway controls both patterning and proliferation during development, but ...

In Development this week (Vol. 139, Issue 14)

Posted by , 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 ...

Affordable Fluorescence

Posted by , 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 ...

Loving zebrafish with all my heart

Posted by , 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 ...

In Development this week (Vol. 139, Issue 13)

Posted by , 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 ...

How obsession can fuel science blogging: The story of Retraction Watch

Posted by , 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 ...

In Development this week (Vol. 139, Issue 12)

Posted by , 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 ...

Publishing 'dirty' data

Posted by , 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 ...

Smart signaling in the developing brain

Posted by , 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 ...

In Development this week (Vol. 139, Issue 11)

Posted by , 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 ...

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