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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Eva Amsen, on 20 December 2011
How do you make an eye? One early trigger for eye formation in Xenopus, as a new Development paper from Michael Levin’s lab shows, is a small change in bioelectric ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 20 December 2011
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Balanced ephrin/Eph signals drive topographic mapping During development of the retinotectal axonal projection, which connects the retina to the ...Posted by Jonathan Lawson, on 8 December 2011
This is my personal report on the last of three laboratory projects which I have undertaken during the rotation year of my 4-year Wellcome Trust PhD. I studied how flies ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, 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 ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 6 December 2011
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Notching up pancreas development According to the lateral inhibition model, during early pancreas development, Neurog3 expression in multipotent progenitor cells ...Posted by Sasha Terashima, on 3 December 2011
In 2007, a group let by Takahashi and Yamanaka from Kyoto University successfully generated pluripotent cells from human adult fibroblasts. They were able to induce a pluripotent state in ...Posted by stas, on 23 November 2011
Estimating the range of a morphogen gradient Morphogen gradient, defined as a concentration field of a chemical factor that acts as a dose-dependent regulator of cell differentiation, is an established ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 22 November 2011
Here are the research highlights from the current issue of Development: Getting to the heart of Flk1 expression The Flk1 gene, which encodes a VEGF-A receptor, is expressed in the ...Posted by Elena, on 22 November 2011
Blog entry When thinking Barcelona, what first comes to mind is probably the football and Olympic games, the beaches, relaxed Mediterranean lifestyle, siesta and long nights out. All of it ...Posted by Paul O'Neill, on 13 November 2011
A new Nature study has again demonstrated the power of ES cells as a model system for recapitulating developmental processes in vitro. Following on from the amazing self-assembly of differentiated ...