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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 22 August 2013
Can you imagine a supermarket where doctors could just go and pick the cells they need to cure their patients? Just like a pharmacy…or a blood bank? Well, this ...Posted by Stefano De Renzis, on 22 August 2013
A major challenge when studying the cell biological bases underlying morphogenesis is represented by the gap between the sub-cellular and the tissue-organ scale (Figure 1). Ideally, one would like to ...Posted by Gary McDowell, on 19 August 2013
For decades, the development of the early embryo and patterning of tissues has been studied with the help of a workhorse of developmental biology, the frog embryo. Xenopus embryos are ...Posted by Tatsuya Hirasawa, on 15 August 2013
Posted by Seema Grewal, on 13 August 2013
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: GDNF’s got a nerve Innervation of the mammalian pancreas is crucial for endocrine and exocrine function. Neural crest cells that ...Posted by Mike Levin, on 30 July 2013
What would happen to your memories and personality if, after decades of adult life, some portion of your brain was replaced with the progeny of fresh stem cells (as might ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 30 July 2013
Here are the highlights form the current issue of Development: Nf2 regulates neural progenitor proliferation Mutation of neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) results in nervous system tumours. Molecularly, Nf2 has diverse ...Posted by Cindy Rodzen, on 29 July 2013
Matrone G, Taylor JM, Wilson KS, Baily J, Love GD, Girkin JM, Mullins JJ, Tucker CS, Denvir MA. Laser-targeted ablation of the zebrafish embryonic ventricle: A novel model of cardiac ...Posted by Megan Wilson, on 27 July 2013
Dranow DB, Tucker RP and Draper BW. Germ cells are required to maintain a stable sexual phenotype in adult zebrafish. Developmental Biology 376: 43-50. Adult sex-reversal – the change of ...Posted by Neil McCarthy, on 26 July 2013
Like me, when you were a kid many of you probably puckered your lips and placed your hands on the side of you neck to make believe that you were ...