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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by BKragesteen, on 19 November 2018
Written and illustrated by: Bjørt K. Kragesteen, Malte Spielmann, and Guillaume Andrey. In early development, the forelimb and hindlimb buds of tetrapods are morphologically uniform. However, as limb development ...Posted by Oded Mayseless, on 15 November 2018
Newborn babies are a symbol of immense potential, as they can grow up to be become virtually anybody, from an astronaut to the president. It is no secret that throughout ...Posted by JNMalagon, on 14 November 2018
Using computer simulations and mathematical modeling to study the evolution of morphogenesis Juan N. Malagon and Ernest Ho tell the story behind their recent paper in PLOS Computational Biology. In ...Posted by rorylcooper, on 7 November 2018
Understanding how complex biological patterns arise is a long standing and fascinating area of scientific research. The patterning, or spatial arrangement, of vertebrate skin appendages (such as feathers, hair and ...Posted by joshua.finkelstein, on 22 October 2018
By Sera Moon Busse Studying limb regeneration in model organisms is important for the advancement of regenerative medicine in humans. We set out to study regeneration in the hind limbs ...Posted by Jeff Rasmussen, on 18 October 2018
Jeff Rasmussen tells the story behind his recent paper from the Sagasti Lab in Dev Cell. This project began as an extension of my earlier postdoc work in Alvaro Sagasti’s ...Posted by chrisbonatto, 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, ...Posted by Francesca Spagnoli, 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 ...Posted by Joachim Goedhart, 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, ...Posted by Marija Matejcic, 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 ...