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Posted by Thomas Butts, on 26 June 2016
My informal review of YEN this year is by necessity a bit rushed but, for what it is, here it is. Most reviews are very short and pithy/jealous and only ...Posted by traceydepellegrin, on 23 June 2016
Model Organisms such as yeast, worm, fly, fish, rat, and mouse are key drivers of biological research, providing manipulable and cost-effective experimental systems that continuously yield fundamental insights into ...Posted by Disease Models and Mechanisms, on 20 June 2016
” the ability to reproduce experimental findings remains essential for the forward movement of science and the application of laboratory findings to the clinic” This is an extract from ...Posted by alebur, on 14 June 2016
Alexa Burger, Mosimann lab, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zürich, Switzerland. When I first heard about the “new” genome editing method in early 2013 called CRISPR-Cas9, I ...Posted by Allison Bardin, on 10 June 2016
Maintaining genome integrity of adult stem cells is important to prevent cancer initiation and stem cell functional decline during aging. Our recent work (Siudeja, Cell Stem Cell, 2015) has demonstrated ...Posted by jturan91, on 10 June 2016
The Zika virus is making headlines as a major world health crisis linked to a host of neurological conditions. In the cases of microcephaly and Guillain-Barre, the evidence that Zika Virus ...Posted by Nathalie Percie du Sert, on 7 June 2016
This post was originally published as a Newsletter article from ShARM (Shared Ageing Research Models) Scientists using animals in research have a responsibility to ensure that the studies are appropriately designed, conducted, ...Posted by jturan91, on 7 June 2016
We know that cells are the building blocks of our bodies. But they are not like inert wooden blocks. They are complicated tiny machines that communicate with each other to ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 31 May 2016
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: A new paradigm for Wnt/β-catenin signalling The Wnt/β-catenin signalling pathway is a key pathway involved in a myriad of ...Posted by Hernán Andrés Morales-Navarrete, on 27 May 2016
A major challenge in cell and developmental biology is to understand the mechanisms whereby cells interact with each other to form the variety of complex tissue forms present in organisms. ...