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Posted by Jenna Galloway, on 9 May 2014
by Jessica Chen and Jenna Galloway Animals can contort their bodies into a diversity of movements: running, jumping, climbing, and swimming to name a few. All of these movements ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 6 May 2014
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Sara sorts out stem cell asymmetric division Adult stem cells play crucial roles in tissue homeostasis, giving rise to ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, 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 ...Posted by Seema Grewal, 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 ...Posted by Mario Metzler, 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 ...Posted by Kara Cerveny, 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 ...Posted by Caroline Hendry, 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 ...Posted by IRBBarcelona, 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 ...Posted by Seema Grewal, 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 ...Posted by Mariana Delfino Machín, 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 ...