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A simple step to reverse ageing

Posted by , on 3 May 2014

How great would it be if we knew how to reverse ageing and turn old organs into young ones? Actually, this might not be as crazy as it sounds. As ...

In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 9)

Posted by , on 22 April 2014

Here are the highlights from the new issue of Development:   Hemogenic endothelium flexes some muscle Mesoangioblasts (MABs) are progenitor cells of embryonic derivation with mesodermal potential. They have been ...

Flippase recognition target: orientation matters, so why care?

Posted by , on 16 April 2014

FRT sites are used often (at least in Drosophila) for inducing deletions or “flipping out” of markers in transgenic constructs. When there are two FRTs sequences in tandem, after inducing ...

Stone Soup Eyes

Posted by , on 16 April 2014

Another installment from the Developmental Neurobiology Students at Reed College. Hope you enjoy! It’s not often that you get to recount the classic tale of Stone Soup when thinking about ...

Regenerating the aged thymus

Posted by , on 9 April 2014

The latest issue of Development includes a paper by Clare Blackburn and colleagues at the Medical Research Council Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, showing that the aged mouse ...

Identified a new possible target to combat muscle wasting

Posted by , on 9 April 2014

The pathological atrophy of skeletal muscle is a serious biomedical problem for which no effective treatment is currently available. Those most affected populations are the elderly diagnosed with sarcopenia and ...

In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 8)

Posted by , on 8 April 2014

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Spine-tingling new role for Sall4 Wnt, Fgf and retinoic acid signalling play a key role in patterning the posterior ...

Green Eggs and Serrano Ham

Posted by , on 4 April 2014

Scenes from Seville (my pics) and a transgenic embryo  (A. Fernandez-Miñan) After over a decade working in Europe, I recently returned to Costa Rica to start a lab at the ...

Approaching limb regeneration in an emerging model crustacean

Posted by , on 1 April 2014

My name is Nikos. I just finished my PhD in the lab of Michalis Averof , starting my thesis at IMBB, in Crete and completing it at IGFL, in Lyon. ...

Learning to Inject Platynereis Embryos

Posted by , on 31 March 2014

Hello!  My name is Maggie Pruitt and I am a postdoc in Dr. Stephan Schneider’s laboratory at Iowa State University.  At the beginning of this year, I had the wonderful ...

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