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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Gary McDowell, on 26 July 2013
Perhaps, like me, you’ve been microinjecting Xenopus embryos for so long that you start seeing strange things – maybe that they’re waving at you. But perhaps that’s not so ...Posted by Xujiang He, on 16 July 2013
With the support from The Company of Biologists, I was lucky to obtain the opportunity to visit Macquaire University in Australia for approximately two months. It was a fantastic trip, ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 16 July 2013
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: From hPSC to mature hepatocyte Liver development entails induction of definitive endoderm, specification of the endoderm to a hepatic ...Posted by Megan Wilson, on 15 July 2013
“We have the ability to understand human disease and deliver it back to the clinic – allowing families to understand and then move on.” This week, I caught up with ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 12 July 2013
I appreciate my health and body, but I admit that there are times when I take all of the amazing biology inside my body for granted. My bones and muscles ...Posted by Kazutaka Hosoda, on 12 July 2013
It’s been four full weeks since I arrived at the MBL Embryology course. Over that time, I came to appreciate the heritage left by previous generations of scientists at the ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 3 July 2013
Here are the highlights from the latest issue of Development. Extrinsic cue for dendrite polarisation Most neurons have a single axon on one side of their cell body and multiple ...Posted by Megan Wilson, on 2 July 2013
Developmental biology from near the south pole Kia Ora from New Zealand Hi, I’m Megan Wilson and I’m a lecturer in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Otago, ...Posted by lara.linden, on 25 June 2013
After two weeks of intense work in the Woods Hole MBL Embryology course, I am beginning to understand why this course compels TAs, faculty and students from around the world ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 14 June 2013
Regeneration is a superpower not just reserved for superheroes—salamanders and newts are able to regenerate lost limbs and tails, and fish can regenerate new retinal neurons after injury to the ...