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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by the Node, on 25 June 2014
This obituary first appeared in Development. Paul Martin and David Ish-Horowicz look back on the life and work of their long-time friend and colleague Julian Lewis, who passed away on April 30th ...Posted by Thomas Butts, on 24 June 2014
‘Increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity’ ‘The study of segmentation: that way leads only to madness’ Alfred Romer (1894 – 1973), Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 24 June 2014
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Eye’s got rhythm In zebrafish, the circadian clock, which is the internal timekeeper that coordinates multiple cellular, physiological and ...Posted by IRBBarcelona, on 23 June 2014
When adenomas appear in the colon, the same cells of the tissue produce a molecule that neutralizes its progression. Adenomas, which are highly prevalent in the population, provide the substrate ...Posted by Elsa Mazari and Aitana Perea-Gomez, on 17 June 2014
Electroporation: an efficient technique for embryologists During embryonic development, the specification of different cell types giving rise to the future organs involves a precise spatiotemporal regulation of cell proliferation, migration, ...Posted by kjchalut, on 17 June 2014
Once upon a time, physicists got curious about the cytoskeleton. They characterised the cytoskeleton – using tools of soft matter, statistical and polymer physics – as a mesoscale material whose ...Posted by skatzster, on 16 June 2014
This story starts with me shaking and nervous and stumbling through my mid-term thesis committee meeting presentation. Not only was I presenting the results from the first half of my ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 10 June 2014
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Insights into familial dysautonomia Familial dysautonomia (FD) is a germline autosomal recessive disease that is characterized by impaired peripheral ...Posted by Alice Accorsi, on 10 June 2014
June 1st, 2014: Exactly one year after my departure flight from Bologna to Boston to attend the 2013 MBL Embryology course held at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, ...Posted by Octavian Voiculescu, on 6 June 2014
Cells move in (still) mysterious ways to achieve morphogenesis. Prominently, cells of an early vertebrate embryo (blastula, a mass of undifferentiated cells) move extensively during gastrulation to generate the three ...