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The people behind the papers – Martina Nagel & Rudolf Winklbauer

Posted by , on 6 July 2018

Contact inhibition of locomotion is a widespread phenomenon in migrating cells. However, cells often migrate collectively as a sheet, raising the question of how contact inhibition is overcome in these …

Blastoid: the backstory of the formation of blastocyst-like structure solely from stem cells.

Posted by , on 27 June 2018

In our recently published paper1, we showed that mouse stem cells self-organize into blastocyst-like structures, that we termed blastoids. Because blastoids can be generated in large numbers, can be finely …

The people behind the papers – Kana Ishimatsu, Tom Hiscock & Sean Megason

Posted by , on 12 June 2018

Somites are segmented structures  which give rise to numerous tissues in the vertebrate body. It has long been observed that somites scale in size with the overall size of the …

The people behind the papers – Pauline Anne & Christian Hardtke

Posted by , on 25 May 2018

Short CLE peptides regulate a wide variety of processes during plant development. In the developing root, the receptors and co-receptors for CLEs have remained largely unclear, as have the relationships …

The people behind the papers – Cathy Pichol-Thievend, Natasha Harvey & Mathias Francois

Posted by , on 22 May 2018

The vertebrate lymphatic vascular network provides crucial circulatory and immune functions but its developmental origin has been a contentious issue, in particular the question of whether lymphatic endothelial cells have …

The people behind the papers – Samira Benhamouche-Trouillet, Evan O’Loughlin & Andrea McClatchey

Posted by , on 21 May 2018

Intrahepatic bile ducts (IHBDs) are epithelial tubular structures that transport bile from the liver to the intestine, but the molecules and mechanisms controlling IHBD morphogenesis have remained largely unclear. A a …

In 2019 we met Vilaiwan Fernandes, who had recently been awared the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Young Investigator Award

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