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Rewiring the brain

Posted by , on 3 January 2014

Watching animals, with their vast diversity of complex behaviours, can never be boring. In the animals around us, ants, spiders, lizards, dogs, cats, fish, birds…, we see so many different ...

In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 2)

Posted by , on 31 December 2013

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Peri important role for Notch Pericytes are specialised cells that wrap around the endothelial cells of the vasculature to ...

In time of revision: of Wingless and morphogens

Posted by , on 27 December 2013

In time of revision: of Wingless and morphogens Alfonso Martinez Arias The recent publication of the important work of C. Alexandre, LA. Baena and JP. Vincent on the molecular requirements ...

Mechanics in the embryo and the evolution of gastrulation

Posted by , on 27 December 2013

I am a former diploma student in Emmanuel Farge’s team “Mechanics and genetics of embryonic and tumoral development” (Paris). Watching embryos could only convince me of Lewis Wolpert’s famous claim ...

Stem cells need beauty sleep too!

Posted by , on 20 December 2013

With the pre-festive season and the long winter darkness that accompanies it, it is appropriate to wonder how daylight/darkness cycles affect our biology. Regular daily variations such as daylight/darkness cycles ...

Intestinal stem cells- from a foetal development perspective

Posted by , on 18 December 2013

My name is Rob Fordham and I’ve just finished my PhD at the Wellcome Trust/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, supervised by Dr Kim Jensen (now Associate Professor ...

Molecular Genetics in the age of information overload

Posted by , on 18 December 2013

Those of us who are of a certain age can remember standing overwhelmed at the video store, agonizing over which movie to rent. Of course today video stores in the ...

In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 1)

Posted by , on 17 December 2013

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   GABAB inhibits neural stem cell proliferation Neurotransmitter functions are typically associated with neural function rather than with development, but ...

Mechanisms for asymmetric heart morphogenesis: About Nodal and tissue intrinsic forces

Posted by , on 11 December 2013

Although we all appear symmetrical from the outside, the organization of our internal organs and organ structure are highly asymmetric. Proper asymmetric positioning and patterning of our organs is very ...

In Development this week (Vol. 140, Issue 24)

Posted by , on 3 December 2013

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   One-step transdifferentiation Terminally differentiated cells are generally considered to be in a developmentally locked state in vivo; they are ...

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