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In Development this week - Special Issue on Plant Development

Posted by , on 13 September 2016

The current issue of Development – our ‘Special Issue on Plant Development’ – contains a collection of review- and research-based articles focusing on plant development.   Below, you can find details ...

A Tale of Trunks or Zen and the art of doing a PhD

Posted by , on 1 September 2016

The story of this paper is also the story of my PhD. It begins as most papers and PhDs do: with a distinct and often unrelated starting project or plan. ...

In Development this week (Vol. 143, Issue 17)

Posted by , on 30 August 2016

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Coordinating neuronal specification and differentiation Neurogenesis – the process of making new neurons – is indispensable for normal development ...

Tackling Differentiated Stem Cell Production

Posted by , on 26 August 2016

This post was originally posted on eurostemcell.org, Europe’s stem cell hub.   by Julia Turan Part of the fascinating potential of stem cells is their ability to provide replacement cells and ...

A day in the life of a sponge lab (yes, there are labs devoted to these animals!)

Posted by , on 24 August 2016

Forget about those large amounts of bottles containing thousands of flies, those huge piles of boxes containing different lineages of mice or large tanks filled with happy-hopping frogs. Also, forget ...

How mechanical signals orchestrate stem cell fate

Posted by , on 23 August 2016

Controlling differentiation using biophysical cues from development Embryonic stem cells have the potential to become any cell type in the adult organism, but coaxing them to a specific fate continues ...

Forgotten classics: Tracing the heart

Posted by , on 17 August 2016

de la Cruz, M.V., Sánchez-Gómez, C. & Palomino, M.A. (1989) The primitive cardiac regions in the straight tube heart (Stage 9–) and their anatomical expression in the mature heart: an ...

FaceBase: An online resource for craniofacial research

Posted by , on 16 August 2016

In 2009, FaceBase was launched in response to the need for more comprehensive analysis of craniofacial development: with so much craniofacial data being generated, there is a danger of relevant datasets ...

A new role of an insect steroid hormone: The link between mating and germline stem cells

Posted by , on 11 August 2016

Tomotsune Ameku, Ryusuke Niwa’s lab, University of Tsukuba, Japan.   Steroid hormones have crucial roles in regulating a broad range of biological processes in most multicellular organisms. They are produced ...

How many and which genes for multicellularity?

Posted by , on 9 August 2016

My research interest is the evolution of multicellularity. How did cells ‘learn’ to communicate with each other to build a structure that is more complex than its parts and shows ...

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