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Allometry in a Simple Cell Network

Posted by , on 19 September 2017

A post by Jasmin Imran Alsous, on work done in collaboration with Paul Villoutreix and Alexander M. Berezhkovskii in the Shvartsman lab. I started working on Drosophila egg chambers from the ...

In Development this week (Vol. 144, Issue 18)

Posted by , on 19 September 2017

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Separating nematode species by spermatogenesis During spermatogenesis, unnecessary organelles and cytoplasmic components are shed from developing sperm in order ...

Mechanical control of the inner ear development

Posted by , on 14 September 2017

Prologue Molecular biological approaches to understanding the complex gene networks regulating development often resemble attempts to understand a Monet painting by looking at it up close. We find the links within ...

Postdoctoral Scientist in Quantitative Biology of Cell Fate and Tissue Dynamics

Posted by , on 8 September 2017

Grade 7: £31,604 – £38,833 p.a. Applications are invited for the new position of Postdoctoral Scientist in Quantitative Biology of Cell Fate and Tissue Dynamics. We seek a highly motivated, ...

Internal mechanism found to be responsible for the limitless growth potential of epithelial tumours

Posted by , on 8 September 2017

Researchers from the Development and Growth Control Laboratory at IRB Barcelona have identified the cell types and molecular mechanism responsible for the unlimited growth potential of epithelial tumours (carcinomas) and ...

Older wombs linked to complications in pregnant mice

Posted by , on 6 September 2017

This article is recent news from the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, view the original post here and the Nature Communications research paper here. Deciding to start a family later in ...

The evolution from mouse to human models of lung development

Posted by , on 4 September 2017

The story behind our eLife paper: Nikolić, M. Z., Caritg, O., Jeng, Q., Johnson, J.-A., Sun, D., Howell, K. J., Brady, J. L., Laresgoiti, U., Allen, G., Butler, R., Zilbauer, ...

Developmental Biologists meet in the Lion City

Posted by , on 30 August 2017

  Meeting Report: Congress of the International Society for Developmental Biology (ISDB 2017)   Singapore, the Lion City, attracted hundreds of developmental biologists from around the world to attend the ...

What Illustrators See that a Camera Can't

Posted by , on 29 August 2017

Illustrator Natalya Zahn on the role of observation and visual interpretation in her work creating an addendum to Nieuwkoop and Faber’s classic Normal Table of Xenopus laevis   As an artist of ...

In Development this Week (Vol. 144, Issue 17)

Posted by , on 29 August 2017

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   AdamTS-A keeps the CNS in shape The Drosophila central nervous system (CNS) is covered by a thick basement membrane that mediates interactions with ...

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