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Gastrulation in a Dish

Posted by , on 12 December 2022

This summer, I was under the supervision of Ashley Libby in James Briscoe’s Lab at the Crick, where they are interested in studying how the spinal cord forms before birth. ...

Gene expansions underlying placenta evolution

Posted by , on 12 December 2022

As part of the Crick-Calleva program, I had the opportunity to work with Greg Slodkowicz in Margarida Cardoso-Moreira’s lab at the Francis Crick Institute over the past summer, studying the ...

Featured Resource: Echinobase

Posted by , on 6 December 2022

In our latest 'Featured resource' article, we hear from Cheryl Telmer, who describes the work of Echinobase.

scRNAseq of the cortical hem and choroid plexus

Posted by , on 2 December 2022

We developed a Shiny App to explore our latest scRNAseq dataset of the E12.5 mouse hem and choroid plexus. You can access it here. It comes as a complement to ...

The future of model organism research

Posted by , on 1 December 2022

The September issue of our journal Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) has a focus on how researchers can best leverage model organisms to improve our understanding of human health and ...

BSDB Gurdon Summer Studentship Report - Delia Capatina

Posted by , on 28 November 2022

Investigating the rules of cell-to-cell interaction during pre-somitic mesoderm elongation I discovered the field of developmental biology through independent reading during the first year of my undergraduate biomedical sciences program. ...

October in preprints

Posted by , on 25 November 2022

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints.

Conflict between neighbours: a perfect way of rebuilding a complete organ system

Posted by , on 16 November 2022

Mabel Mathew gives us some insights into the story behind their paper on the mechanism underlying de novo shoot regeneration.

SSRI use during pregnancy: potential effects on fetal brain development

Posted by , on 10 November 2022

There have been long-standing debates around the risk of selective serotonin uptake inhibitor (SSRI) use during pregnancy due to the potential effects on fetal brain development. Our studies, which have ...

'Extraembryonic tissues: exploring concepts, definitions and functions across the animal kingdom'

Posted by , on 2 November 2022

Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B: Extraembryonic tissues: exploring concepts, definitions and functions across the animal kingdom Compiled and edited by Guojun Sheng, Thorsten E ...

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