The community site for and by
developmental and stem cell biologists
Displaying posts in the category: Research

Biology and maths partner to understand life decisions

Posted by , on 26 October 2014

Starting with the one fertilized egg that we all once were, embryonic development is made of cell divisions and most importantly of cell decisions. These first life decisions are the ...

In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 21)

Posted by , on 21 October 2014

Here are the highlights from the new issue of Development:   Two top tips for angiogenesis The widely accepted model of angiogenic sprouting proposes that a single cell – the ...

Full-term development of quail chick by ICSI

Posted by , on 18 October 2014

The eggs of domestic birds have been used in the study of developmental biology, leading to the extensive accumulation of knowledge on embryonic development. However, the early events involved in ...

Flies with colon cancer help to unravel the genetic keys to disease in humans

Posted by , on 8 October 2014

Researchers generate for the first time Drosophila melanogaster with intestinal cancer and reveal key genetic factors behind human colon cancer. The scientists identify a human gene that favours the proliferation ...

In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 20)

Posted by , on 7 October 2014

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Small (molecule) steps to making bone The repair of cartilage and bone following damage remains a clinical challenge. Current ...

Tough decisions for the developing brain

Posted by , on 3 October 2014

To form complex organs, somatic stem cells proliferate and then differentiate during development. In this process, intrinsic factors, i.e. the sequential expression of transcriptional genes, and extrinsic factors, i.e. extracellular ...

What do sperm have to do with brain tumors?

Posted by , on 2 October 2014

  This post was originally published in the Knoepfler Lab Stem Cell Blog.      Sometimes in science there are unexpected threads tying seemingly very different things together. Unraveling the ...

Towards a synthetic embryo

Posted by , on 24 September 2014

Waddington, whose writings on the epigenetic landscape continue to influence developmental biology to this day, called the developing embryo “the most intriguing object that nature has to offer”(Waddington, 1966). The ...

When real life becomes equations: Control of Epiblast and Primitive Endoderm specification during mouse preimplantation development.

Posted by , 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 ...

In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 19)

Posted by , 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 ...

Navigate the archive

Use our Advanced Search tool to search and filter posts by date, category, tags and authors.