Developing news — September 2023
Posted by the Node, on 1 September 2023
Is it time to re-define what a human embryo is?
With the recent advances in human stem cell-derived embryo models, a team of researchers have suggested that perhaps it is time to redefine what a human embryo is.
Read the Perspective “An ethical framework for human embryology with embryo models” and this News article: What is an embryo? Scientists say definition needs to change.
If you’d like to read more about the technical challenges of studying early human development, check out this Spotlight on Development.
preLights on dev bio
Check out the preLights in #devbio published from March to July this year: preLights in the field of developmental biology (March – July 2023) | Development | The Company of Biologists
A featured preLight is on the preprints ‘Cell polarity linked to gravity sensing is generated by protein translocation from statoliths to the plasma membrane’ by Takeshi Nishimura et al. and ‘Amyloplast sedimentation repolarizes LAZYs to achieve gravity sensing in plants’ by Jiayue Chen et al.
News from the community
Learning from our friends over at ZebrafishRock, the Node would like to be more intentional in celebrating the various achievements of people in the developmental and stem cell biology community. We have trawled through social media (which is a bit all over the place nowadays) to look for any relevant news in the past month, but fill in this form if you know someone who deserves a mention, and we’ll consider sharing the piece of news in the next installment of ‘Developing news’.
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