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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by David Gold, on 6 July 2011
Twenty-four of us have been working for the past five weeks, studying development in a variety of contexts and organisms at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The ...Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 5 July 2011
As promised, in this final part of my meeting report on the BSCB-BSDB Spring Conference 2011 I will highlight a couple of talks which came with visual effects – studies ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 21 June 2011
Here are the research highlights from the current issue of Development: How to make stripes: revising the pair-rules A key step in Drosophila segmentation is the transition from non-periodic to ...Posted by nathanhunkapiller, on 21 June 2011
Nathan M. Hunkapiller and Susan J. Fisher To accompany our research article in issue 138 (14) of Development, “A role for Notch signaling in trophoblast endovascular invasion and in the ...Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 20 June 2011
Here is part 3 of my report on the 2011 BSCB-BSDB Spring Conference this April in Canterbury. In the first part, I covered Mark Krasnow’s amazing opening lecture on lung ...Posted by Jonathan Lawson, on 20 June 2011
The 3D spatial arrangement of DNA within the nucleus is tightly controlled and has great functional significance. Each chromosome has been shown to occupy a defined nuclear territory and the ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 13 June 2011
The Drosophila ovary is stunningly beautiful, and a playground of wonderful biological questions. Within the germarium alone, developmental biologists can look at asymmetric division, stem cells and their niches, cell ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 9 June 2011
After a heart attack, heart muscle is irreparably damaged, but a paper in Nature now reports that adult mouse hearts have a source of progenitor cells that can form new ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 7 June 2011
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Mutant Xist merely muffles X chromosome In XX female mammals, inactivation of one X chromosome during development equalises the levels ...Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 31 May 2011
Each year, three medals to honour extraordinary research achievements in cell and developmental biology are awarded at the joint conference of the British Societies for Cell Biology (BSCB) and Developmental ...