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Fly-CURE: a nation-wide CURE initiative

Posted by , on 11 March 2022

Why CUREs? The 2011 Vision and Change document called for undergraduate STEM majors to have an authentic research experience during their undergraduate careers(Holm, Carter, & Woodin, 2011). There is evidence ...

February in preprints

Posted by , on 9 March 2022

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

The Single-Cell Ninjas Platform: Sharing is caring!

Posted by , on 7 March 2022

The Single-Cell Ninjas platform aims to share knowledge about single-cell technology with the scientific community.

Understanding and drugging RAS: 40 years to break the tip of the iceberg

Posted by , on 7 March 2022

Disease Models & Mechanisms has launched its latest Special Issue ‘The RAS Pathway: Diseases, Therapeutics and Beyond‘, which was guest edited by Donita Brady and Arvin Dar. In the accompanying ...

Hanging by a hair: the life of a semi-aquatic bug.

Posted by , on 23 February 2022

A evo-devo research story from Cédric Finet asking why are water striders so hairy.

January in preprints

Posted by , on 17 February 2022

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

The order of discovery is not the order of the figures

Posted by , on 9 February 2022

Read the story behind the paper with Akihiro Kaneshige

SP7: another small step toward understanding its mechanisms of action

Posted by , on 7 February 2022

During embryonic development, bone formation begins with the condensation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). In a few places of our body, such as in the skull and the shoulder blades, ...

Featured resource: Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank

Posted by , on 31 January 2022

Find out more about the Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank with Doug Houston

Repulsive interactions bring rapid mitotic divisions to order

Posted by , on 26 January 2022

New research, published in Development, describes repulsive forces driving the uniform distribution of nuclei in the developing embryo. Study conducted at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Ivo Telley & Jorge ...

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