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National Museum of Brazil Disaster: What did we learn and what should we do differently?

Posted by , on 3 October 2018

  On the Sunday night of 2nd September of 2018, one month ago, most Brazilians were watching TV shows while a large part of our national story was burning out ...

Clone Wars: A New Model

Posted by , on 1 October 2018

From the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine blog.   Stem cell turnover and tissue maintenance is a stochastic process. This means that a randomly occurring mutation has an unknown ...

A study using Drosophila sheds light on the metastatic behaviour of human tumours

Posted by , on 26 September 2018

Most solid tumours with metastatic potential show a high degree of chromosomal instability. A study published in the journal Developmental Cell demonstrates that chromosomal instability itself promotes invasive behaviour. The ...

An odyssey through the genesis of hematopoietic stem cells

Posted by , on 21 September 2018

Here, Mylène Lancino and myself will introduce our motivation to investigate and delve deeper into one essential and very peculiar process of Stem Cell Biology: the de novo genesis of hematopoietic ...

The people behind the papers - Guillaume Blin, Manuel Thery & Sally Lowell

Posted by , on 21 September 2018

During early mouse development, a series of signalling interactions breaks the symmetry of the egg cylinder, spatially organising the embryo into territories that define the future axes of the body. ...

Revisiting an old puzzle with high-resolution, three-dimensional eyes

Posted by , on 19 September 2018

Sha Wang, Deborah Gumucio This article shares the story behind our recent Developmental Cell paper. It tells the history of this project and how three-dimensional (3D) observations at the individual ...

Nora and Nestor catch you up with the BSDB Autumn Meeting 2018

Posted by , on 19 September 2018

  Hello there! This is Nora Braak and Nestor Saiz, we are based in Oxford and New York respectively and we study butterfly and mouse development. Last week we went ...

Organ plumbing

Posted by , on 19 September 2018

Water is a fascinating substance. Its behavior sets a lot of interesting constraints on both how the surface of our world is shaped geologically and how life on said surface ...

Salamander Models in Cross-Disciplinary Research - Meeting Report

Posted by , on 18 September 2018

  Vienna, Austria July 2018     The use of salamanders in regeneration and developmental research has a long history filled with luminaries of the life sciences. Thomas Hunt Morgan, ...

Tenure Track Assistant Professor — Cell Biology

Posted by , on 14 September 2018

The University of Virginia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Biology. We seek applicants who have a research vision that addresses new or longstanding ...

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