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Fly like a fish?

Posted by , on 26 October 2015

Zebrafish is a common model organism in many fields of science. The study by Sundvik et al. 2015 in Scientific Reports tests the safety of acoustic levitation of an intact ...

Live-cell analysis of plant embryogenesis: Live-cell imaging, optical manipulation, and micro-engineering technologies

Posted by , on 16 October 2015

In multicellular animals and plants, the single-celled zygote develops into the embryo. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the zygote divides asymmetrically to form a small cytoplasmic apical cell, which ...

EmbryoMaker: a general modeling framework to simulate developing systems and perform experiments in silico.

Posted by , on 4 October 2015

One of the main challenges of Developmental Biology is to understand the complex developmental mechanisms giving rise to different organs or whole organisms. In most cases, these involve the interplay ...

Enabling research with human embryonic and fetal tissue resources

Posted by , on 24 September 2015

This Spotlight article was written by Dianne Gerrelli, Steven Lisgo, Andrew J. Copp and Susan Lindsay, and was first published in Development.   Congenital anomalies are a significant burden on human health. Understanding the developmental origins of ...

A technique dating back to 1935 is recovered for cancer research in flies

Posted by , on 15 September 2015

A study conducted by ICREA researcher Cayetano González, at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), and published in Nature Protocols describes a forgotten technique used in the fly ...

Talking about Science using Comics: A Stem Cell example

Posted by , on 28 August 2015

  “A Stem Cell Adventure” is a comic book about stem cell research, and resulted from a project on science outreach carried out by several researchers at the Center for ...

Useful databases and resources for developmental biologists

Posted by , on 20 August 2015

As you may have noticed, as part of our recent redesign we created a new Resources section on the site, which you can access via the menu bar. Within this section we have ...

European Advanced School for Mouse Phenogenomics – pushing the boundaries of mouse genetics

Posted by , on 24 July 2015

The laboratory mouse has been a popular model in mammalian biology for obvious reasons and it has contributed to a number of landmark discoveries in biomedical research. Despite this, few ...

99 (imaging) problems

Posted by , on 17 July 2015

  Last week, the SDB hosted what may well have been its highest annual meeting – at 8000 feet – in Snowbird, Utah. The atmosphere was fantastic, the talks were phenomenal, and the ...

Resources for Developmental Biologists

Posted by , on 16 July 2015

At last week’s SDB Meeting in Utah, I attended the ‘Imaging Workshop’, which was designed to give attendees an overview of some of the imaging-based resources available to the community, ...

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