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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Eva Amsen, on 3 October 2011
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has just been announced, and the winners are Bruce Beutler (The Scripps Research Institute), Jules Hoffmann (University of Strasbourg) and Ralph Steinman ...Posted by Nitin Sabherwal, on 26 September 2011
-By Nitin Sabherwal, Eugen Nacu, Heike Laman, Irene Gutierrez Vallejo and Anna Kicheva The second day of the workshop has finished and it is the reporting time now. We had ...Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 22 September 2011
Eric Wieschaus is a Professor at Princeton University, USA. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and the late Edward B. ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 22 September 2011
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: ApoE: a role in neurogenesis Hippocampal neurodegeneration occurs in most forms of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. There is, therefore, intense ...Posted by GrowthDivDiff, on 19 September 2011
In the series of The Company of Biologists Workshops a select group of roughly 30 scientists have gathered at Wiston House, West Sussex, UK, from September 18 to 21, 2011, ...Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 14 September 2011
The famous Richard Axel kicked off the last day in Vienna by presenting new data on how olfactory information is projected from the olfactory bulb to the cortex. After his ...Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 12 September 2011
Here’s my brief roundup of day two at The EMBO Meeting. It started with Susan Lindquist‘s excellent talk on how cells react to stress by synthesising lots of new heat-shock ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 8 September 2011
Researchers have long known about regeneration of injured muscles, and have debated about the exact source of the muscle stem cells that perform this amazing feat. A group of papers ...Posted by Paul O'Neill, on 8 September 2011
Transparency. A desirable virtue in many walks of life, and a particularly useful trait in developmental biology. Model organisms that are see-through offer unique advantages, especially when it comes to ...Posted by Bruno Vellutini, on 7 September 2011
Turtles are peculiar vertebrates. They have a compact skull with no temporal openings, a beak instead of teeth, a contractible neck, and a shell covering its trunk. The famous turtle ...