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Spider segmentation gets its SOX on!

Posted by , on 15 October 2018

There is a vast amount of information known about how some animals pattern their bodies into repeated segments, especially in the fruit-fly Drosophila melanogaster. However, when compared to other arthropods, ...

Post-doctoral position in pancreatic tissue engineering available in the Spagnoli lab.

Posted by , on 12 October 2018

A Postdoctoral position is available in the Spagnoli lab. in the Centre for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at King’s College, London. Our team uses interdisciplinary approaches to study pancreas ...

Make a difference: the alternative for p-values

Posted by , on 8 October 2018

Calculation and reporting of p-values is common in scientific publications and presentations (Cristea and Ioannidis, 2018). Usually, the p-value is calculated to decide whether two conditions, e.g. control and treatment, ...

Staying in shape

Posted by , on 5 October 2018

If you’re into developmental biology, chances are you’ve spent some time in your life thinking about how cells change the shapes of tissues. What would cells need to do in ...

Travel Grants: To Conferences of Your Choice

Posted by , on 4 October 2018

Antibodies.com is proud to support researchers with travel grants up to £500. The Award: Each quarter, Antibodies.com offers a travel grant up to £500 to help cover the cost of ...

Autonomous traffic - Wnt cytonemes lead the way.

Posted by , on 2 October 2018

by Lauren Porter and Steffen Scholpp Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, UK   The importance of Wnt signalling in developmental processes, wound healing and stem cell control has long ...

The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium is creating an encyclopaedia of mammalian gene function, from embryo to adult

Posted by , on 28 September 2018

The entire genome of many species has now been sequenced, but the function of the majority of genes still remains unknown. This is where the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) ...

A study using Drosophila sheds light on the metastatic behaviour of human tumours

Posted by , on 26 September 2018

Most solid tumours with metastatic potential show a high degree of chromosomal instability. A study published in the journal Developmental Cell demonstrates that chromosomal instability itself promotes invasive behaviour. The ...

An odyssey through the genesis of hematopoietic stem cells

Posted by , on 21 September 2018

Here, Mylène Lancino and myself will introduce our motivation to investigate and delve deeper into one essential and very peculiar process of Stem Cell Biology: the de novo genesis of hematopoietic ...

Revisiting an old puzzle with high-resolution, three-dimensional eyes

Posted by , on 19 September 2018

Sha Wang, Deborah Gumucio This article shares the story behind our recent Developmental Cell paper. It tells the history of this project and how three-dimensional (3D) observations at the individual ...

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