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Posted by BSDB, on 16 April 2018
The Waddington Medal is the only national Developmental Biology award in the UK. It honours outstanding research performance as well as services to the subject community. The medal is awarded ...Posted by BSDB, on 13 April 2018
This year, is the BSDB’s 70th anniversary! Expect many extras on our Spring Meeting (15-18 April 2018 in Warwick)! For example, the history rap, a contemporary oral rendering of ...Posted by the Node, on 12 April 2018
Here at Development towers the excitement is mounting for the BSDB’s Spring meeting, which starts in Warwick on Sunday. The meetings are always great fun but this year promises to ...Posted by Lorena Garcia-Perez, on 11 April 2018
***Abstract Deadline is Saturday, 14th April!*** Young Embryologist Network Conference 2018 14th May 2018 The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK This year we are pleased to announce Professor Wolf Reik as ...Posted by the Node Interviews, on 9 April 2018
Cell fate commitment relies on both activation of appropriate genes and suppression of inappropriate ones. Polycomb group proteins are known to be crucial epigenetic silencers of developmental genes, but the ...Posted by Joachim Goedhart, on 5 April 2018
In a previous blog, I have disgraced parrots by associating them with P-values and discrediting them for their mechanic repetition. Nevertheless, I admire the vivid colours of these multifaceted birds. ...Posted by the Node Interviews, on 5 April 2018
Development and homeostasis depend crucially on the maintenance of cell identity, and in gamete-producing tissues the somatic/germline distinction is paramount. A recent paper in Development explores how cell identity is ...Posted by the Node, on 4 April 2018
One of the most talked about preprints this month was a corrigendum to that Nature Methods paper reporting widespread off-target mutations following CRISPR-Cas9 editing in mice. The paper was challenged quickly on ...Posted by the Node, on 27 March 2018
This editorial and interview appeared in Development, Vol 145 Issue 6 A new Editor-in-Chief for Development Sarah Bray, Kate Storey, Katherine Brown As many of you will be ...Posted by SRulands, on 23 March 2018
Steffen Rulands and Benjamin Simons A discussion of our recent paper: Rulands S et al., Universality of clone dynamics during tissue development. Nature Physics | doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0055-6 Often, the most ...