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Sex-reversal in adult fish

Posted by , 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 ...

Alcohol, genes, and fish faces

Posted by , 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 ...

Wave at the frogs - they're waving at you

Posted by , 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 ...

A fantastic trip in Sydney, supported by a Travelling Fellowship

Posted by , 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, ...

In Development this week, Vol. 140, Issue 15

Posted by , 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 ...

Distant Developments: In conversation with Professor Stephen Robertson, clinical geneticist and developmental biology researcher

Posted by , 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 ...

Building strength and stability: assembly of tendon-bone attachment

Posted by , 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 ...

Discovery at the MBL

Posted by , 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 ...

In Development this week (Vol. 140, Issue 14)

Posted by , 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 ...

SpotLight on Otago: Distant Developments

Posted by , 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, ...

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