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developmental and stem cell biologists
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 ...Posted by Kif Liakath-Ali, on 13 June 2013
Birds in flight were an inspiration for Wright brothers to build aeroplane. Be it how Geckos scurry up walls or sub cellular trafficking of molecules, fundamental biological phenomena are always ...Posted by Cantas Alev, on 12 June 2013
The three principal germ layers of the vertebrate embryo, ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm, emerge from the pluripotent epiblast during the process of gastrulation. Being especially interested in the molecular and ...