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The SDB-BSDB interview chain: Yusuff Abdu interviews Claire Bromley

Posted by , on 26 May 2017

Each year, the British and US societies for Developmental Biology have their annual meeting, the BSDB‘s usually in April, the SDB‘s usually in July. The winner of the student poster prize in ...

The people behind the papers: Gabriel Krens and Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Posted by , on 25 May 2017

Cell sorting is a critical process during development, as differently specified cells are segregated to the right parts of the embryo. Differences in cell adhesion and cortical tension are thought ...

DrosAfrica: Background and Workshops

Posted by , on 24 May 2017

Introduction to the DrosAfrica project The contribution of scientific research in shaping societies is increasingly significant. However, African researchers make up only around two per cent of the world’s academic ...

Obituary: Tokindo S. Okada (1927-2017)

Posted by , on 24 May 2017

This obituary by Hisato Kondoh and Harukazu Nakamura first appeared in Development, May 15th 2017.      Tokindo S. Okada (here referred to as TSO) was one of the leaders who steered developmental ...

A day in the life of an Oikopleura Lab

Posted by , on 23 May 2017

The recent bloom of genomic data from all of life’s kingdoms is revealing a novel perspective of gene loss as a pervasive source of genetic variation with a great potential ...

The evolution of an axon guidance model: from chemotaxis to haptotaxis

Posted by , on 16 May 2017

The canonical model The publication of Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s seminal Cell papers (1, 2) in 1994 describing the identification of netrin1 (from the Sanskrit word, netr, meaning “one who guides”) was ...

In Development this week (Vol. 144, Issue 10)

Posted by , on 16 May 2017

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: A new model for lineage segregation Lineage segregation during gastrulation has long been thought to be driven by differential cell ...

Biotagging: Behind the scenes (and beyond)

Posted by , on 16 May 2017

“It finally got accepted!”, fol­­lowed by “It’s finally out!” about a month later. I am certain this ‘finally’ feeling about their paper is very familiar to those well-acquainted with the ...

Two Bioimage Analysis Schools from NEUBIAS

Posted by , on 15 May 2017

NEUBIAS, the Network of European BioImage Analysts (www.neubias.org), is delighted to announce two new Training Schools on BioImage Analysis:   Early Career Investigators (life scientists) Facility staff (imaging & analysis ...

The people behind the papers: Jun-Ho Ha, Hyo-Jun Lee and Chung-Mo Park

Posted by , on 11 May 2017

Our 20th instalment of this series comes from South Korea and features an investigation into the molecular basis of how temperature influences developmental transitions in Arabidopsis seedlings, recently published in Developmental Cell. We ...

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