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The elusive hematopoietic stem cells of Drosophila.

Posted by , on 22 November 2016

Drosophila hematopoiesis shows striking resemblance with that of vertebrates, both at the level of signalling molecules and the phase of development. Even though there has been no report of Hematopoietic ...

Science Portfolio Adviser/Developer – Cellular and Developmental Sciences

Posted by , on 21 November 2016

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How to build and evolve a nervous system

Posted by , on 20 November 2016

Author Summary of “A gene regulatory network for apical organ neurogenesis and its spatial control in sea star embryos”.   Alys M. Cheatle Jarvela, Kristen A. Yankura, Veronica F. Hinman Development 2016 143: 4214-4223; doi: 10.1242/dev.134999 Very ...

8 Fully-funded PhD studentships at Warwick-A*STAR Singapore

Posted by , on 18 November 2016

The Warwick – A*STAR Research Attachment Programme offers fully funded 4 year PhD studentships in Molecular Cell Biology and Microbiology, with students spending 2 years at Warwick and 2 years ...

Mitotic Bookmarking by Esrrb: an unexplored mechanism for implementing cell fate choices?

Posted by , on 18 November 2016

  The story behind our recent paper (Festuccia et al., Nature Cell Biology 2016) started with a serendipitous observation made in a small room of the ISCR (Institute for Stem ...

The Biology of Regenerative Medicine - registration opening soon

Posted by , on 16 November 2016

The aim of the third conference in this series is to understand the biology that underpins the success or failure of regenerative processes. We will explore the relationship between stem ...

An interview with Kathryn Anderson

Posted by , on 15 November 2016

This interview by Aidan Maartens first featured in Development, Volume 143, Issue 22.    Kathryn Anderson is Professor and Chair of the Developmental Biology Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute in ...

In Development this week (Vol. 143, Issue 22)

Posted by , on 15 November 2016

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   A postnatal model for Zika virus infection Zika virus (ZIKV) infection results in embryonic microcephaly and has been declared ...

Forgotten classics: Rosa Beddington's chimeras

Posted by , on 11 November 2016

R. S. P. Beddington (1981). An autoradiographic analysis of the potency of embryonic ectoderm in the 8th day postimplantation mouse embryo. Journal of Experimental Embryology and Morphology. 64: 87-10. Open Access R. ...

This month on the Node

Posted by , on 11 November 2016

A roundup of the Node’s highlights from October 2016.      October’s most discussed post came from Development’s Executive Editor Katherine Brown, who reported from a workshop on preprints in Cambridge ...

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