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Congenital heart defects caused by problems with placenta

Posted by , on 28 November 2024

Brief summary: Congenital heart defects are the most common human birth defect, affecting around 1% of newborns. People with heart defects often show low levels of a protein that helps ...

Please, show me your boundaries

Posted by , on 18 November 2024

from Irene Karapidaki, Béryl Laplace-Builhé and Michalis Averof What is this? These are crustacean embryos injected with mRNA encoding a red fluorescent protein bound to membranes. On the left, the ...

Don’t eat me!!

Posted by , on 15 November 2024

When I joined the Zon lab in June 2021, my mentor, Leonard Zon, shared an insightful piece of advice: “A good project always has two questions, one you can answer ...

The role of WNT signalling upon injury in intestinal stem cells

Posted by , on 13 November 2024

Over the summer, I had the opportunity to conduct research in Vivian Li’s Lab, focusing on the role of WNT signalling in the response of intestinal stem cells to injury, ...

Behind the paper: A transcriptomic hourglass in brown algae

Posted by , on 12 November 2024

Brown algae are a group of complex multicellular eukaryotes, unrelated to animals, plants and fungi. It follows that brown algae evolved the process of multicellular development independently, offering a unique ...

Promoting developmental diversity in a changing world 

Posted by , on 7 November 2024

Editorial from Development's latest Special Issue 'Uncovering Developmental Diversity', edited by Cassandra Extavour, Liam Dolan and Karen Sears.

October in preprints

Posted by , on 6 November 2024

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

Understanding signalling pathways involved in the development of definitive endoderm.

Posted by , on 4 November 2024

During my time as a summer student at the Francis Crick Institute, I had the privilege of working in the Developmental Signalling Laboratory of Dr Caroline Hill. Under the mentorship ...

Reverse development in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi

Posted by , on 4 November 2024

Joan and Pawel show us a timelapse video of reverse development of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, and tell the story behind it.

September in preprints

Posted by , on 9 October 2024

Here's a list of preprints published in September in developmental and stem cell biology (and related fields).

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