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#devbiolstories: Guy Fawkes, Chickens, and the Hatching of "Mechanism" in Developmental Biology

Posted by , on 25 April 2023

Welcome to #devbiolstories, which I hope will grow into a wholly random collection of short pieces on stuff I want to write about. I also hope you’ll enjoy it. Today, ...

Behind the paper story: TWISTED, the birth of a new gene

Posted by , on 25 April 2023

Nayelli Marsch-Martínez tells the story behind the paper on finding a gene that appears to have been generated de novo, in a specific branch of the plant kingdom.

Beyond the birds and the bees

Posted by , on 24 April 2023

“It’s like growing a clone of yourself out of your arm,” Bailey Steinworth said, gesturing to her own arm to illustrate one of the ways Cassiopea xamachana — the upside-down ...

Behind the paper story: uncovering non-canonical functions of the Hippo pathway

Posted by , on 21 April 2023

Heya Zhao shares the story behind a recently published paper in Dev Cell where they reveal the non-canonical functions of the Hippo pathway in developmental cell fate decisions in the ...

Engaging the public with fundamental biology: why it’s tough but still worth doing

Posted by , on 22 March 2023

by Naomi Clements-Brod and Hélène Doerflinger What is Public Engagement with Research? Public Engagement with Research (PER) encompasses ways of engaging the public with the design, conduct and dissemination of ...

If you give a scientist a cuttlefish . . .

Posted by , on 20 March 2023

She might not see it the next day. At first glance, the slag in the saltwater aquarium is just a rock covered with purple jasmine polyps and green star polyps. ...

Behind the paper and the SciComm story: uncovering the role of CNKSR2 in the chick forebrain

Posted by , on 17 March 2023

“CNKSR2: Identifying and elucidating the role of a novel downstream effector of RA signalling in chick forebrain morphogenesis“ In the February issue of Development, Niveda and her colleagues report on ...

Behind the paper story: 'How heterotypic cis/trans factors drive stomatal cell fate commitment’

Posted by , on 16 March 2023

Dr. Eun-Deok Kim and Professor Keiko Torii from The University of Texas at Austin, USA, have recently published an article in Nature Plants. The article discusses how heterotypic cis/trans factors ...

11th Avian Model Systems Meeting, 11-14 Sep 2023 in Portsmouth, UK

Posted by , on 8 March 2023

The 11th Avian Model Systems Meeting will take place 11-14 September 2023 in Portsmouth, UK.

Periodic inhibition of Erk activity drives sequential somite segmentation

Posted by , on 23 February 2023

Node Blog: Behind the Paper Story Clocks, gradients and segmentation Muhammed Simsek, Ertuğrul Özbudak and colleagues have discovered that oscillations in the ppErk gradient, driven by the Her1-Her7 oscillator, is ...

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