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Posted by Jill Harrison, on 29 April 2015
Jill Harrison and Yoan Coudert. The conquest of land by plants was one of the most significant events in our planet’s history, and was underpinned by a series of ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 28 April 2015
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: The light at the end of the tubule Tubular structures, such as kidney tubules or blood vessels, carry out ...Posted by IRBBarcelona, on 28 April 2015
A study done on fruit flies and published in Nature Communications reveals that the protein dDsk2, in addition to degrading proteins, also plays a key role in regulating gene expression. ...Posted by Kate Criswell, on 21 April 2015
Greetings from Chicago! My name is Kate Criswell and I am a graduate student at the University of Chicago, working with Dr. Mike Coates on axial column evolution and development ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 7 April 2015
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Getting to the heart of human epicardial differentiation The epicardium is crucial for heart development and function, and it ...Posted by Joana Carvalho, on 6 April 2015
We have been trying to implement FRET in the lab and transfect our cells with mechanical biosensors, but so far we haven’t managed to successfully force our cells to express our ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 1 April 2015
Mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) are by definition cells that can self-renew (make identical copies of themselves) and specialize into any cell type of the body. Since their discovery, scientists ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 24 March 2015
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: ActivinA-ting spiny neuron production from hPSCs The medium-sized spiny neurons, the main projection neurons of the striatum, are generated ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 10 March 2015
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Dmrt1: a common thread in sex determination Dmrt1 and its related genes play a key role in sex determination ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 24 February 2015
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: pancRNAs in early development Promoter-associated noncoding RNAs (pancRNAs) are a class of long noncoding RNAs, transcribed from bidirectional promoters ...