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Showing distributions

Posted by , on 6 August 2018

When reading about co-evolution of prey and predators, I stumbled across a cute new plot type: a half boxplot, half dot plot to show data distributions.     Wilson used ...

The toilet paper model

Posted by , on 3 August 2018

  In LM Escudero´s group, we like developmental biology, mathematical biology and computational biology. We try to be imaginative and get inspiration from simple things… such as a toilet paper ...

Testing Zimmermann’s Telome Theory

Posted by , on 1 August 2018

A perspective on our recent paper ‘CLAVATA was a genetic novelty for the morphological innovation of 3D growth in land plants’1.   In the 1950’s, the German botanist Walter Zimmermann ...

Life changing experiences with Embryos

Posted by , on 18 July 2018

It’s hard to describe with words how my experience has been at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, but I’m going to give it a try… My ...

Differentiating cells mechanically limit progenitor cells’ interkinetic nuclear migration to secure apical cytogenesis

Posted by , on 17 July 2018

Press release for Yuto Watanabe, Takumi Kawaue and Takaki Miyata‘s new Development paper   Key Points Developing brains use a mechanism like the Otoshi-buta (the drop lid), a kitchen wisdom. Differentiating cells ...

Postdoctoral Position in Cardiovascular Development

Posted by , on 16 July 2018

A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Sophie Astrof at Thomas Jefferson University to study roles of cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) interactions in cardiovascular development and congenital heart ...

A day in the life of a Capitella teleta lab

Posted by , on 10 July 2018

It’s undoubtedly the middle of summer here in Saint Augustine, Florida. Daily temperatures are soaring into the 90s, and we’re grateful if the humidity dips below 70%. Thankfully, the Seaver ...

All beauty must die

Posted by , on 9 July 2018

Anna Daneva, Zhen Gao and Moritz Nowack tell the story behind their recent paper in Nature Plants   The transience of flowers is proverbial. Degeneration of flowers is elicited after ...

C. elegans Development, Cell Biology and Gene Expression and 2018 European Worm Meeting report

Posted by , on 9 July 2018

I recently attended the biennial Development, Cell Biology and Gene Expression C. elegans Meeting, this time in combination with the 2018 European Worm Meeting, in Barcelona. C. elegans meetings are ...

Stem cell makes its own niche: the story behind the paper

Posted by , on 7 July 2018

In our recent paper published in Nature, we unravel a new mechanism of an extracellular matrix protein secreted by muscle satellite (stem) cells, thereby playing the unusual role of acting ...

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