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NIMR Canvas -Patches from the developmental biologists at NIMR

Posted by , on 20 April 2015

The MRC National Institute for Medical Research has celebrated its centenary in 2014. On 1st April 2015 NIMR ceased to exist, as it became part of the new Francis Crick ...
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A day in the life of a Planarian lab

Posted by , on 12 April 2015

Greetings and warm welcome to the “Planarian lab @ Oxford” The lab is based in the Department of Zoology in The Tinbergen Building on South parks Road in the “Land ...
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The small beginnings of gastruloids

Posted by , on 1 April 2015

Mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) are by definition cells that can self-renew (make identical copies of themselves) and specialize into any cell type of the body. Since their discovery, scientists ...
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Notes from the fly meeting- day 3

Posted by , on 7 March 2015

I’m reporting from the Drosophila meeting. You can read the post on days 1 and 2 here.   We woke up to another cold day here in Chicago, and kicked off straight ...
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A day in the life of an Axolotl lab

Posted by , on 25 February 2015

Annie Espinal-Centeno & Luis Alfredo Cruz-Ramírez Hello! I am Annie, a research assistant in the group of Molecular and Developmental Complexity, under the supervision of Dr. Luis Alfredo Cruz-Ramírez. Our ...
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How to eradicate an organ

Posted by , on 11 February 2015

 Phreatichthys andruzzii, lateral view (left), frontal view (right) Adaptations of some fish species to their environment can be most peculiar, especially within cave dwelling kinds. The so called troglomorphisms slowly ...
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Stem cells...now showing in 3D

Posted by , on 22 January 2015

    Growing organs in vitro is one of the ultimate dreams of any stem cell biologist. As such, it seems obvious that some of these organs will need to ...
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From naïve pluripotency to chimeras: a new ethical challenge?

Posted by , on 18 December 2014

This article by Insoo Hyun was first published in  Development. Also read the companion ethics article here.   In recent years, there has been much interest in the prospect of generating and using human stem cells ...
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Ethical considerations in chimera research

Posted by , on 18 December 2014

This article by Göran Hermerén was first published in  Development. Also read the companion ethics article  here.   The development of human pluripotent stem cells has opened up the possibility to analyse the ...
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EuroStemCell November 2014 Newsletter: World Diabetes Day

Posted by , on 4 December 2014

Hello! We’d like to start by offering our congratulations to Dr Masayo Takahashi who won 2014 Stem Cell Person of year!  A fitting acknowledgement of her and her team’s, hard work. ...
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