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Biologically Inspired Digital Designs

Posted by , 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 ...

Amniote gastrulation without a streak

Posted by , 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 ...

ISSCR Annual Meeting 2013

Posted by , on 11 June 2013

Hi there, My name’s Harry and i’m going to be blogging from the ISSCR annual meeting in Boston, starting tomorrow. I’ll try and add daily updates to let you know ...

Red fish, blue fish, Brainbow fish!

Posted by , on 11 June 2013

Here is a little backstory to our zebrafish Brainbow (Zebrabow) paper published in Development. After finishing up my graduate work in Josh Sanes’s lab at Harvard, I decided to join ...

In Development this week (Vol. 140, Issue 13)

Posted by , on 11 June 2013

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Centrosomes and cell fate: a Notch ahead Asymmetric cell divisions (ACDs) play a crucial role in controlling cell fate ...

We're celebrating!

Posted by , on 3 June 2013

Today we’ve added the 1 millionth antibody to CiteAb, making us the world’s biggest citation based antibody search engine! www.citeab.com Despite reaching a million antibodies we are still very new ...

Gone today, hair tomorrow? Changes in dermal papilla cell number drive hair thinning and loss.

Posted by , on 28 May 2013

  Over the course of a lifetime, each hair follicle makes a series of new hairs, temporarily ceasing hair production before beginning again anew.  This has focused attention on the ...

From Sequence to Function

Posted by , on 17 May 2013

  It took longer than the human genome, if by only a few years, but it has finally arrived. The sequencing of the zebrafish (Danio rerio) genome reported in Howe ...

Stem cells crossing boundaries

Posted by , on 16 May 2013

For most of us, we don’t all end up settled as adults in the same town where we were born.  The same is true for many cells, including some stem ...

A Taste of Stem Cells

Posted by , on 16 May 2013

Continuous supply of mature differentiated cells by adult stem cells is required in most of adult tissues especially those with rapid turnover rates. In recent years, using advanced cell biological ...

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