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In Development this week (Vol. 140, Issue 16)

Posted by , on 30 July 2013

Here are the highlights form the current issue of Development:   Nf2 regulates neural progenitor proliferation Mutation of neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) results in nervous system tumours. Molecularly, Nf2 has diverse ...

Synchronicity: Laser-targeted ablation timed with zebrafish embryonic heart cycle

Posted by , on 29 July 2013

Matrone G, Taylor JM, Wilson KS, Baily J, Love GD, Girkin JM, Mullins JJ, Tucker CS, Denvir MA. Laser-targeted ablation of the zebrafish embryonic ventricle: A novel model of cardiac ...

Sex-reversal in adult fish

Posted by , on 27 July 2013

Dranow DB, Tucker RP and Draper BW. Germ cells are required to maintain a stable sexual phenotype in adult zebrafish. Developmental Biology 376: 43-50. Adult sex-reversal  –  the change of ...

Alcohol, genes, and fish faces

Posted by , on 26 July 2013

Like me, when you were a kid many of you probably puckered your lips and placed your hands on the side of you neck to make believe that you were ...

Wave at the frogs - they're waving at you

Posted by , on 26 July 2013

  Perhaps, like me, you’ve been microinjecting Xenopus embryos for so long that you start seeing strange things – maybe that they’re waving at you.  But perhaps that’s not so ...

The 8th European Zebrafish Meeting

Posted by , on 25 July 2013

By Leonardo Valdivia and Joaquín Letelier Here is a report about sessions performed during the 8th European Zebrafish meeting held in Barcelona. The post is divided in different topics to ...

The Fly Room Project

Posted by , on 24 July 2013

The field of modern genetics owes a lot to the pioneering work of Thomas Hunt Morgan on the little fruit fly. A great part of his work was conducted in ...

Fish, pharma & flamenco: highlights of the 6th Zebrafish Disease Models workshop

Posted by , on 24 July 2013

Set against a beautiful backdrop of baroque architecture and cobbled streets in Murcia, Spain, the 6th Zebrafish Disease Models workshop (ZDM6) kicked off with an awe-inspiring keynote talk on developing ...

Principal Technician PS01478

Posted by , on 23 July 2013

The Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute draws together outstanding researchers from 25 stem cell laboratories in Cambridge to form a world-leading centre for stem cell biology ...

Six weeks in Woods Hole

Posted by , on 23 July 2013

Six weeks of Science. Forty-four days of lectures, discussions and (sometimes crazy) experiments at the bench. One thousand fifty-six hours in Woods Hole, attending to the 125th Embryology Course organized ...

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