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Pregnancy complications in assisted reproduction linked to a specific process

Posted by , on 9 June 2020

A Press Release from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine – see the Development paper by Lisa Vrooman, Marisa Bartolomei and colleagues here. An experimental study from researchers in ...

Catch Me if You Can: An elusive underpinning for Arx(GCG)10+7-mediated apoptosis in X-linked infantile spasms syndrome

Posted by , on 3 June 2020

This post highlights the approach and finding of a new research article published by Disease Models and Mechanisms (DMM). This feature is written by Olivia Howell as apart of a ...

Stripe by stripe, zebrafish model provides transparent look into Fibrolamellar Carcinoma mechanism

Posted by , on 3 June 2020

This post highlights the approach and finding of a new research article published by Disease Models and Mechanisms (DMM). This feature is written by Joseph I. Kaluzny as apart of ...

Virtual EWM2020 22nd-23rd June

Posted by , on 2 June 2020

EWM2020 meeting is going online June 22nd-23rd. follow by a Poster Session June 29-30th with new abstract submission Details  at shorturl.at/mvFY7 & Twitter Ewbank Pujol lab  #EWM2020;  Wormbase    

How I defended my Ph.D. from a remote location in India amidst COVID-19 lockdown?

Posted by , on 2 June 2020

Author: Suvimal Kumar Sindhu, Graduate Student @ Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, 208016, India Email: suvimal.sindhu@gmail.com   Having joined my Ph.D. programme at India Institute of Technology ...

May in preprints

Posted by , on 1 June 2020

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.    A real monster of a month, May, with masses of preprints uploaded by scientists in various stages of ...

The people behind the papers – Charles Sheehan, John McMahon and Debby Silver

Posted by , on 27 May 2020

This interview, the 76th in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  Interneurons are crucial to cortical function and their dysregulation has been implicated in various neurological pathologies, ...

Staying connected during the COVID19 pandemic

Posted by , on 21 May 2020

Among many other (many more important) things, pandemic times have meant an end to travel, which for the Development team means no conferences and no lab visits. For me personally, ...

Getting involved in peer review

Posted by , on 19 May 2020

In pre-COVID19 times, back when conferences happened largely in person, early-career researchers (ECRs) often asked me how they could get more direct invitations to be a reviewer. Peer review is ...

Cilia, Reissner Fiber and Crooked Spines

Posted by , on 18 May 2020

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of attending any scientific meeting is the privilege of becoming aware of novel research findings in our fields of interest, prior to their appearance in ...

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