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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Seema Grewal, on 9 April 2013
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Dynamics of human thymus development The thymus is the primary organ responsible for generating T cells. Although thymus development ...Posted by Kim Cooper, on 27 March 2013
Sproing! Sproing! Sproing! If there is one animal that deserves its own cartoon sound, it is the jerboa – a bipedal desert rodent with extraordinarily elongated hindlegs, fused foot bones, ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 26 March 2013
Here are the highlights from the new issue of Development: Molecular map of posterior hypothalamus The hypothalamus is a key integrative centre in the vertebrate brain that regulates many essential ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 12 March 2013
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Mammary gland RankL-ed into making milk Extensive remodelling of the mammary gland during pregnancy generates milk-producing lobuloalveolar structures. During ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 7 March 2013
You didn’t stop developing once you were born (or hatched). Our infant selves barely resemble ourselves as adults, thankfully, and stem cells play an important role in this continued development. ...Posted by Catarina Vicente, on 3 March 2013
I recently came across a study by Milinkovitch and colleagues on the development of crocodile head scales. I think it highlights how nature sometimes chooses unusual ways to approach ...Posted by aglcheng, on 3 March 2013
Did it ever occur to you that to enjoy music from Antonio Vivaldi to Lil Wayne, we use only about 22,000 sensory hair cells in our ears? Because hair cells ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 27 February 2013
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Cofilin and Vangl2 kick start planar cell polarity The planar cell polarity (PCP) pathway orients cells within the plane ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 15 February 2013
A lot of things cycle in life, even down to the cellular level. In the developing central nervous system, regulators of the cell cycle play important roles in maintaining the ...Posted by Stephen Frankenberg, on 12 February 2013
Marsupials were popular models for early development in the early 1900s , with classic morphological studies performed by notable embryologists such as J.P. Hill, C.G. Hartman, T.T. Flynn (Errol Flynn’s ...