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Behind the paper: How veiled chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus) make their left and right sides.

Posted by , on 15 May 2023

Read the behind the scenes story of a recent article by Dr. Natalia (Natasha) Shylo, Dr. Paul Trainor and colleagues at Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

Made the Same Way: Our bodies are galaxies

Posted by , on 11 May 2023

The fourth episode of the Wellcome-funded Human Developmental Biology Initiative‘s new podcast, Made the Same Way, features scientist Emily Calderbank and rapper Olivia (aka FREEQUENCY3) discussing human embryonic haematopoiesis. At ...

April in preprints

Posted by , on 3 May 2023

Our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints.

Behind the paper: The mechanisms underlying microglial expansion in the developing brain

Posted by , on 1 May 2023

Dr Liam Barry-Carroll, Dr David A Menassa, Professor Diego Gomez-Nicola and colleagues have recently published a paper in Cell Reports elucidating the mechanisms by which microglial cells expand as a ...

#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. ...

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