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Posted by Karuna Sampath, on 11 September 2013
The maternal squint puzzle – part 2 Karuna Sampath Here is the background story for a recent paper from my lab in eLife, “An Essential Role ...Posted by Gary McDowell, on 3 September 2013
After fertilization, embryos undergo rapid, synchronous cell divisions until the point of the midblastula transition (MBT) where the cell cycle lengthens. This transition is also known as the maternal-zygotic ...Posted by Florian Heigwer, on 30 August 2013
E-CRISP is now available under: www.e-crisp.org Genome editing by applying the CRISPR/Cas system has been shown to be a promising new tool in genetics. CRISPR/Cas works by guided DNA double ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 27 August 2013
Here are the highlights from the new issue of Development: FGF10 function in the lung branches off Lung development in mice involves specification of the primary lung field followed ...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 ...