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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Anita Abu-Daya, on 9 May 2011
Loss-of-function studies in Xenopus have been, until recently, limited to transient knockdowns by injection of morpholino antisense oligonucleotides. In part because of X. laevis’ complex allotetraploid genome, the system lacked ...Posted by Raman Das, on 9 May 2011
The story of our recently released Development paper ‘FatJ acts via the Hippo mediator Yap1 to restrict the size of neural progenitor cell pools’ (http://dev.biologists.org/content/138/10/1893.full) involves hundreds of dozens ...Posted by Megan Davey, on 6 May 2011
Can I just bring to eveyone’s attention that the 6th International Chick Conference is now to be held at The Roslin Insititute, UK. Sept 17-20, 2011. This forum often attracts ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 5 May 2011
Regenerative medicine and stem cell research go hand-in-hand when it comes to dreaming up future strategies for treating disease and injury in humans. Today’s image is from a recent Development ...Posted by Nishal Patel, on 4 May 2011
The Map of Life is a recently published guide to convergent evolution produced by the University of Cambridge that has been touring science festivals and events across the world. It ...Posted by Sarah Carl, on 4 May 2011
The March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology was jointly awarded this April to David Page, Director of the Whitehead Institute, and Patricia Ann Jacobs, professor of human genetics at ...Posted by the Node, on 4 May 2011
Congratulations to Hozana Andrade Castillo of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, whose image of a mouse pharyngeal arch jumped from third place to first place in the last ...Posted by Linda, on 3 May 2011
More and more, the central dogma is becoming well, dogged, for being a dogma at all. As humans, we have 3 billion nucleotides. Only 1% of it makes up our ...Posted by Jonathan Lawson, on 1 May 2011
This is a retelling of the student and post-doc workshop from the second day of the BSDB/BSCB joint spring meeting that took place in Canterbury at the University of Kent. ...Posted by LucyHaizlipWilliams, on 30 April 2011
I’ve been asked to present the back-story behind our recently published manuscript in Development “Transcription precedes loss of Xist coating and depletion of H3K27me3 during X-chromosome reprogramming in the mouse ...