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Cricket Leg Regeneration: Histone Modification Matters

Posted by , 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 ...

From our sister journals- October 2015

Posted by , 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 ...

In Development this week (Vol. 142, Issue 20)

Posted by , 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 ...

Live-cell analysis of plant embryogenesis: Live-cell imaging, optical manipulation, and micro-engineering technologies

Posted by , 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 ...

EDRC 2015 Meeting report: "Ich hab mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren"

Posted by , 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 ...

The Hippo effector YAP in retinal stem cells

Posted by , 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 ...

In Development this week (Vol. 142, Issue 19)

Posted by , on 6 October 2015

Here are the highlights from the new issue of Development:   Hormone-mediated flower development: a HEC of a job Fruits originate from the female reproductive part of the flower, the ...

EmbryoMaker: a general modeling framework to simulate developing systems and perform experiments in silico.

Posted by , on 4 October 2015

One of the main challenges of Developmental Biology is to understand the complex developmental mechanisms giving rise to different organs or whole organisms. In most cases, these involve the interplay ...

From our sister journals- September 2015

Posted by , on 28 September 2015

Here is some developmental biology related content from other journals published by The Company of Biologists.             Auditory hair cell defects in Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome ...

PLM10: the Physics of Living Matter is coming of age

Posted by , on 27 September 2015

This week, Cambridge (UK) hosted the 10th Symposium on the Physics of Living Matter (PLM10) (http://www.plm-symposium.org/). For those of us who were at PLM1, it is surprising to see that ...

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