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Posted by Jean-Léon Maître, on 29 August 2024
Read the story behind the paper “Mechanics of human embryo compaction” from Jean-Léon Maître and Julie Firmin.Posted by the Node, on 20 August 2024
In June, the Node, preLights and FocalPlane organised SciCommConnect, an online event all about science writing and presentation. As part of the day, we hosted a three-minute research talk competition. ...Posted by Alex Neaverson, on 19 August 2024
Congratulations to Millie Race, who won this year’s ‘Sammy Lee Award for Research in Embryology’ at the Young Embryologist Network (YEN) meeting 2024! This medal is given annually to someone ...Posted by the Node, on 6 August 2024
Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints.Posted by Brent Foster, on 23 July 2024
Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus is an emerging model to understand stem cell evolution Stem cells can’t hide what they are. At least, that’s the takeaway from the newly sequenced genomes of two ...Posted by the Node, on 10 July 2024
Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv – use these links below to ...Posted by Joaquin Navajas Acedo, on 8 July 2024
What is this? The video depicts the formation of the so-called lateral line in a transgenic zebrafish that I took when I was a student in Tatjana Piotrowski’s lab at ...Posted by Uwe Töpfer, on 4 July 2024
Basement membranes (BMs) are thin, specialized extracellular matrices that surround most tissues and organs (Jayadev and Sherwood, 2017). These meshworks serve as scaffolds for cell adhesion, influencing cell signaling, cell ...Posted by Kelli Fenelon, on 3 July 2024
Since the sequencing of GFP in the 1990’s, interrogation of biological questions using transgenic model organisms expressing genetically engineered fluorescent molecules has exploded across many biological fields. Living organisms are ...Posted by Anastasiia Lozovska, on 28 June 2024
While the vertebrate body consists of diverse structures formed during embryogenesis, there is a limited number of genetic regulatory modules that are repurposed in different developmental contexts. For example, the ...