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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by BSDB, on 20 November 2015
In 2014, the British Society of Developmental Biology (BSDB) has initiated the Gurdon Summer Studentship program with the intention to provide highly motivated students with exceptional qualities and a strong ...Posted by jturan91, on 19 November 2015
As we develop from wads of cells to fully formed humans, each of our organs goes through intricate processes to achieve the right combination and number of cells arranged in ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 17 November 2015
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Nodal: sustaining Shh expression Underlying the developing vertebrate forebrain is the prechordal mesoderm, which secretes sonic hedgehog (Shh) at ...Posted by Mike Levin, on 7 November 2015
One of the most important problems in experimental biology has to do with variability / heterogeneity (Rubin, 1990): why do different organisms react differently to the same perturbation or ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 3 November 2015
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Spatial mapping in the brain Many sensory systems show topographic mapping: the spatial organisation of peripheral receptors is preserved ...Posted by beckymcintosh, on 30 October 2015
Chris Puhl and Rebecca McIntosh As a part of a team of students from the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London we commissioned and edited an issue ...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 ...