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Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 28 February 2014
When it comes to stem cell biology, there have been very few topics as fascinating and popular as cell reprogramming, the most famous reprogramming experiment being the one of Dolly ...Posted by Simon Harding, on 26 February 2014
GUDMAP (Harding et al., 2011, McMahon et al., 2008) is an open-access atlas-based on-line resource developed by a consortium of laboratories to provide the scientific and medical community with resources ...Posted by Jennifer Fish, on 25 February 2014
by Jennifer L. Fish and Richard A. Schneider “For every type of animal there is a most convenient size, and a large change in size inevitably carries with it ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 18 February 2014
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Time to update the mammalian CV The dorsal aorta (DA) and the cardinal vein (CV) are the first vascular ...Posted by mpicbg, on 7 February 2014
Why iodine deficiency during pregnancy may have disastrous consequences Higher mammals, such as humans, have markedly larger brains than other mammals. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular ...Posted by IRBBarcelona, on 7 February 2014
– Researchers at IRB and IBMB-CSIC, in Barcelona, and at the University of Wageningen, in the Netherlands, reveal how auxin hormone-regulated proteins activate developmental genes in plants. – Auxins are ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 4 February 2014
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Integrating integrin signals for neocortical growth Within the developing neocortex, multiple progenitor cell types contribute to neuronal production, and ...Posted by Kif Liakath-Ali, on 2 February 2014
Physics and Biology were the media darlings last week. Earlier, one of my favorite physicists Professor Stephen Hawking claimed through his paper that there are no black holes! Well… later ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 31 January 2014
Of all the types of stem cells, there is a kind than can be a lot more scary than beautiful: the cancer stem cell. Although the concept of cancer stem ...Posted by okanca, on 22 January 2014
Those lucky scientists, who study organisms which allow live imaging experiments to be effectively performed, do not always appreciate what a luxury it is to watch the tissue of interest ...