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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by lucy6660, on 12 May 2011
To accompany our paper “Long-term live imaging provides new insight into stem cell regulation and germline-soma coordination in the Drosophila ovary” I have been asked by staff at the Node ...Posted by Florence Janody, on 11 May 2011
Genetic screens in flies brought me by chance to have a look at one of the basic apparatus of the cell: the actin cytoskeleton. At that time, I remembered my ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 10 May 2011
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Dronc regulates Numb and neuroblast formation The ability of stem cells to maintain a balance between self-renewal and differentiation is ...Posted by Anita Abu-Daya, on 9 May 2011
Loss-of-function studies in Xenopus have been, until recently, limited to transient knockdowns by injection of morpholino antisense oligonucleotides. In part because of X. laevis’ complex allotetraploid genome, the system lacked ...Posted by Raman Das, on 9 May 2011
The story of our recently released Development paper ‘FatJ acts via the Hippo mediator Yap1 to restrict the size of neural progenitor cell pools’ (http://dev.biologists.org/content/138/10/1893.full) involves hundreds of dozens ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 5 May 2011
Regenerative medicine and stem cell research go hand-in-hand when it comes to dreaming up future strategies for treating disease and injury in humans. Today’s image is from a recent Development ...Posted by Sarah Carl, on 4 May 2011
The March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology was jointly awarded this April to David Page, Director of the Whitehead Institute, and Patricia Ann Jacobs, professor of human genetics at ...Posted by Linda, on 3 May 2011
More and more, the central dogma is becoming well, dogged, for being a dogma at all. As humans, we have 3 billion nucleotides. Only 1% of it makes up our ...Posted by Jonathan Lawson, on 1 May 2011
This is a retelling of the student and post-doc workshop from the second day of the BSDB/BSCB joint spring meeting that took place in Canterbury at the University of Kent. ...Posted by LucyHaizlipWilliams, on 30 April 2011
I’ve been asked to present the back-story behind our recently published manuscript in Development “Transcription precedes loss of Xist coating and depletion of H3K27me3 during X-chromosome reprogramming in the mouse ...