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Posted by Mike Levin, on 30 October 2015
Pattern formation and regulation emerges from cellular activity determined by specific biophysical and genetic rules. A major challenge for developmental biology, biomedicine, and synthetic bioengineering is this highly indirect (Lobo ...Posted by Tomer Stern, on 28 October 2015
By Tomer Stern, the skeletal development laboratory of Prof. Elazar Zelzer, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Proper shape-size relation is essential for the function of ...Posted by Maria Sundvik, on 26 October 2015
Zebrafish is a common model organism in many fields of science. The study by Sundvik et al. 2015 in Scientific Reports tests the safety of acoustic levitation of an intact ...Posted by Hiroki Ueda, on 23 October 2015
Dimitri Perrin3, Shimpei I. Kubota1,2, Kazuki Tainaka1,2 & Hiroki R. Ueda1,2,4* 1Department of Systems Pharmacology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. 2CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan. 3School ...Posted by Hideyo Ohuchi, on 22 October 2015
In autumn, crickets generally exhibit chirping songs in the temperate East Asian country of Japan. While the African field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus originates from tropical countries, it is an emerging ...Posted by the Node, on 21 October 2015
Here is some developmental biology related content from other journals published by The Company of Biologists. Modelling Alzheimer’s Disease in vitro Hall and colleagues ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 20 October 2015
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Atoh1: earmarked for differentiation Atoh1 is a key regulator of the differentiation of hair cells, the sensory cells that ...Posted by Daisuke Kurihara, on 16 October 2015
In multicellular animals and plants, the single-celled zygote develops into the embryo. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the zygote divides asymmetrically to form a small cytoplasmic apical cell, which ...Posted by Jerome Korzelius, on 8 October 2015
Hundreds of fly researchers from Europe and around the world gathered in the picturesque German city of Heidelberg to attend the European Drosophila Research Conference or EDRC. The local organizers ...Posted by Muriel Perron, on 7 October 2015
Xenopus represents a prime model for dissecting in vivo the signalling network that controls retinal stem cell behaviour. Its retina indeed retains a reservoir of active neural stem cells in ...