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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Seema Grewal, 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 ...Posted by Misato Iwashita, 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 ...Posted by pknoepfler, 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 ...Posted by Aryeh Warmflash, 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 ...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 ...