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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 ...Posted by sallan, on 26 April 2012
The sophistication of genetic tools and the relative ease of breeding and housing mean that the mouse is the most widely used mammalian organism for basic and biomedical research. The ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 23 April 2012
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: A TOR de force in the haematopoietic niche During development and homeostasis, it is essential to coordinate growth with the ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 12 April 2012
We depend on our own comfort zones to keep us grounded, and stem cells are no different. A recent paper in Development describes how the adhesion that keeps a stem ...Posted by Kim Cooper, on 6 April 2012
All is well. The Kazakh family is unbelievable. They have been catching more than 20 females each night although almost every one of them died the first two nights. We ...