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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Sylvain Bessonnard, on 23 September 2014
During mouse preimplantation development, the zygote divides and forms three distinct lineages: one embryonic called the Epiblast (Epi) and two extraembryonic called trophectoderm (TE) and Primitive Endoderm (PrE). The first ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 23 September 2014
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Modelling fate decisions in the early mouse embryo In the early embryo, the first fate decision separates the trophectoderm ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 4 September 2014
As for the origin of species, the question of the origin of blood during development has unleashed a lot of passion among the scientific community. As a matter of fact, ...Posted by Joana Carvalho, on 4 September 2014
Hello everyone, Recently I got assigned with the task of designing good primers for ChIP. My supervisor advised me to use the Primer BLAST tool from NCBI together with AmplifiX ...Posted by MRC Press Office, on 3 September 2014
Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists have for the first time managed to turn stem cells into the specialised cells that go on to form spinal cord, muscle and bone tissue ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 2 September 2014
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Mcc: a new player in gastrulation The mutated in molorectal cancer (Mcc) gene has been described as a tumour ...Posted by the Node, on 21 August 2014
This obituary first appeared in Development. Stefano Piccolo looks back at the life and research of his friend and colleague Yoshiki Sasai. On 5 August 2014, Yoshiki Sasai died at ...Posted by Gary McDowell, on 20 August 2014
I previously wrote a post about the development of a 4-D X-Ray Tomography technique for imaging early Xenopus embryos. Frog embryos are opaque due to their yolky composition and this ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 19 August 2014
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: HSCs make a Runx1 for it The emergence of haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) during early mammalian development is crucial ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 6 August 2014
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: PCP signalling is dispensable for neural crest migration The neural crest (NC) is a transient and migratory population of ...