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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by samuel.malone, on 29 March 2017
Throughout history, the desire of scientists to understand physiology and disease by thoroughly studying anatomical features, has always faced an intractable limitation: they cannot simply see through the tissue! ...Posted by chris.armit@igmm.ed.ac.uk, on 9 February 2017
A recent publication in Developmental Biology by (Armit et al., 2017) describes how the TRACER dataset can be spatially compared with in situ hybridisation gene expression profiles. The TRACER ...Posted by damiendevienne, on 30 January 2017
“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution” (Dobzansky, 1973). Our knowledge of the evolutionary relationships between all known organisms, the so-called Tree of Life (ToL), is ...Posted by BSDB, on 24 January 2017
Established by the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) in 2014, the Gurdon/The Company of Biologists Summer Studentship scheme provides financial support to allow highly motivated undergraduate students an opportunity to ...Posted by Ripla Arora, on 5 January 2017
Comment on “Insights from imaging the implanting embryo and the uterine environment in three dimensions”, Arora et al, Development 143(24):4749-4754 (2016). More than 2000 years ago, Hippocrates (460-377BC) and Aristotle ...Posted by Ingo Przesdzing, on 13 December 2016
Biomedical research is experiencing what has been termed a ‘reproducibility crisis’. There is much talk about how we can improve the rigor and robustness of our research to increase its ...Posted by DMDD, on 1 December 2016
This post originally appeared on Annotations, the DMDD blog. New image and phenotype data for embryos and placentas from embryonic lethal knockout mouse lines has been made ...Posted by 3DEmbryo, on 28 November 2016
“It’s fair to say that we currently know more about the moon than about our own embryonic development. The current textbooks all show the same kind of images based on ...Posted by chris.armit@igmm.ed.ac.uk, on 24 November 2016
A new eLearning resource that provides short and interactive vignettes in embryo (primarily vertebrate) development, from gametogenesis through to organogenesis, is available from the eMouseAtlas1,2 website (www.emouseatlas.org). The current eLearning ...Posted by DMDD, on 29 September 2016
This article was originally posted on the DMDD website dmdd.org.uk Knowing the ‘normal’ expression of genes during embryo development is key to understanding the differences that occur due to genetic ...