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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 ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 6 September 2011
Here are the research highlights form the current issue of Development: Modelling liver development with ES cells: HNF4A is key Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), via their ability to differentiate ...Posted by Julieta Acevedo, on 31 August 2011
Thanks to the support from the Company of Biologists I had the opportunity to attend the 70th SDB meeting that was held last month in the hot but wonderful city ...Posted by dorloff, on 29 August 2011
The Cell: An Image Library Help us reach our goal of 1000 members in our LinkedIn group. Join us at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=3733425. The Cell: An Image Library http://www.cellimagelibrary.orgPosted by Seema Grewal, on 23 August 2011
Here are the research highlights from the current issue of Development: Shaping up the Hippo pathway The Hippo pathway, which regulates cell proliferation, is regulated by cell density: low cell ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 15 August 2011
Do your ears perk up when you hear about embryonic stem cells? We all have heard and/or participated in the controversy surrounding the use of them, yet there is no ...