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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by the Node Interviews, on 18 July 2018
Asymmetric division is a widespread mechanism for generating cellular diversity during developmental patterning. The stomata of flowering plants are epidermal valves that regulate gas exchange, and provide an accessible system to investigate the mechanisms ...Posted by alexislanza, on 10 July 2018
It’s undoubtedly the middle of summer here in Saint Augustine, Florida. Daily temperatures are soaring into the 90s, and we’re grateful if the humidity dips below 70%. Thankfully, the Seaver ...Posted by Sophie PR Gilbert, on 9 July 2018
I recently attended the biennial Development, Cell Biology and Gene Expression C. elegans Meeting, this time in combination with the 2018 European Worm Meeting, in Barcelona. C. elegans meetings are ...Posted by MBBaghdadi, on 7 July 2018
In our recent paper published in Nature, we unravel a new mechanism of an extracellular matrix protein secreted by muscle satellite (stem) cells, thereby playing the unusual role of acting ...Posted by the Node Interviews, on 6 July 2018
Contact inhibition of locomotion is a widespread phenomenon in migrating cells. However, cells often migrate collectively as a sheet, raising the question of how contact inhibition is overcome in these ...Posted by imartyn, on 5 July 2018
Iain Martyn & Tatiane Kanno share their experiences of the discovery of the human organizer “It’s alive!” Iain’s first impressions “Hybrid human chicken embryos: HALF HUMAN – ...Posted by the Node, on 4 July 2018
Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other related) preprints! This month we found a tranche of preprints getting deep into the mechanics of fly development, a clutch ...Posted by yzhang, on 29 June 2018
The story behind melanocyte BACE2, posted by Yan Zhang and Richard White. You can read our recently published full article at Developmental Cell using this link. Our story began six ...Posted by Zubair, on 29 June 2018
4WH Neurogenesis: What Where Why When and How? Neurogenesis is understood as the process by which neural stem cells (NSCs) produce new neurons. In the adult mammalian brain, this process ...Posted by the Node, on 28 June 2018
The BSDB’s Autumn Meeting, to be held in Oxford this September, is the third in a series of international workshops on the extraembryonic-embryonic interface, bringing together researchers that address this ...