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Challenging an old stem cell dogma

Posted by , on 4 August 2014

Science teachers usually say that science progresses by challenging old dogmas. In the stem cell field, there is a dogma saying that some blood stem cells in the bone marrow ...

Creative morphometrics - so many tools, so little time

Posted by , on 4 August 2014

Nowadays, the hardest thing in science is similar to what we experience in daily life, that is organization and choice. In a virtual plethora of techniques, methods and analyses, an ...

‘‘Transit amplification in the cerebellum evolved via a heterochronic shift in NeuroD1 expression’’

Posted by , on 4 August 2014

They are a mouthful, paper titles, sometimes. This is exactly the sort of title that would have made me ignore it in the days when I worked on the evolution ...

Obituary: Walter J. Gehring (1939-2014)

Posted by , on 4 August 2014

This obituary first appeared in Development. Also read other obituaries about Walter Gehring in Science, EMBO Journal and Developmental Cell.   Alex Schier looks back at the life and research of ...

A consideration of mammalian dermal evolution.

Posted by , on 2 August 2014

  Hello everyone. My background is in systems engineering, and i have over forty years experience of building and trouble shooting mechanical/hydraulic systems. I have an interest in the evolution ...

Researchers identify a key molecule in flies that adjusts energy use under starvation conditions

Posted by , on 24 July 2014

Marco Milán leads the Development and Growth Control Laboratory (Battista/Minocri, IRB Barcelona)  The Phd student Lara Barrio worked on the role of p53 in metabolism (Battista/Minocri, IRB Barcelona)   Scientists ...

Raising the Shields!

Posted by , on 23 July 2014

Turtles are strange organisms, and their development is wonderfully idiosyncratic. What other vertebrate alters its bone development to make an ossified mobile home? The turtle has perplexed biologists for many ...

In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 15)

Posted by , on 22 July 2014

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   talpid2: a mystery finally solved The chicken talpid2 and talpid3 mutants display a range of developmental phenotypes including craniofacial ...

Your non-model organism is going extinct

Posted by , on 17 July 2014

“There is no such thing as a non-model organism” R. Behringer This bold statement was announced less than a week into our Embryology course and has left a lasting impression ...

In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 14)

Posted by , on 8 July 2014

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Prime time for pluripotency Embryonic stem cell (ESC) cultures display a marked heterogeneity in the expression of Nanog, one ...

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