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Team work, good science

Posted by , on 8 March 2018

You can find our recently published eLife paper here.   At the Euro-Evo-Devo meeting in Lisbao I saw a talk by Sylvie Rétaux and became hooked by a blind and ...

Funded places for early-career researchers at a human brain development & evolution workshop

Posted by , on 8 March 2018

This summer, the Company of Biologists, the not-for-profit publisher of Development, is running a Workshop on ‘Development and evolution of the human neocortex‘, organised by Victor Borrell, Wieland Huttner and Arnold ...

Stem cell fate choice: determined in an instant

Posted by , on 6 March 2018

Jun Chen National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing A discussion of our recent paper: Chen J, Xu N, Wang C, Huang P, Huang H, Jin Z, Yu Z, Cai T, ...

February in preprints

Posted by , on 1 March 2018

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. Let us know if we missed anything.   On February 20th, The Company of Biologists launched preLights, a community-led ...

What an amazing workshop by Madeline Lancaster, Denis Jabaudon and The Company of Biologists!

Posted by , on 28 February 2018

How do cells give rise to the functional architecture of the brain? This is no longer a neuroscience-only question. Indeed, it is a cellular, genetic, developmental, mechanical, and material problem ...

PhD Studentship in Claudio Stern's lab still available

Posted by , on 28 February 2018

Please note that a PhD studentship is still available in Claudio Stern’s lab. See previous post here:   Studentship available in Claudio Stern’s lab  

Understanding cell- and tissue-level decision-making – a tense and crowded situation in the skin!

Posted by , on 23 February 2018

The story behind our paper: Yekaterina A. Miroshnikova*, Huy Q. Le*, David Schneider*, Torsten Thalheim, Matthias Rübsam, Nadine Bremicker, Julien Polleux, Nadine Kamprad, Marco Tarantola, Irène Wang, Martial Balland, Carien M. ...

Introducing preLights: preprint highlights, selected by the biological community

Posted by , on 23 February 2018

This editorial by Katherine Brown and Olivier Pourquié was published in Development on 22/02/18. We are excited to announce the launch of preLights (https://prelights.biologists.com/), a new service from The Company of ...

Using human development to improve myogenesis from human pluripotent stem cells

Posted by , on 21 February 2018

A discussion of our recent paper: Hicks et al., ERBB3 and NGFR mark a distinct skeletal muscle progenitor cell in human development and hPSCs. Nature Cell Biology, January 1 2018 ...

The people behind the papers – Marina Matsumiya & Ryoichiro Kageyama

Posted by , on 19 February 2018

Vertebrate segmentation involves the periodic formation of somites from the presomitic mesoderm, in a manner controlled by oscillating gene expression (the oscillations of the segmentation clock must be one of the ...

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