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(Developmental) Biology around the internet- October 2014

Posted by , on 15 October 2014

Here is October’s round-up of some of the interesting content that we spotted around the internet:   News & Research: – Bananas, Jesus on toast and polar bear disguises- some ...

EuroStemCell September 2014 Newsletter: Creative stem cells

Posted by , on 10 October 2014

As September comes to a close, we’ve got a newsletter packed with creativity and colour! If you are anything like us, you will be wondering how you can get yourself ...

Flies with colon cancer help to unravel the genetic keys to disease in humans

Posted by , on 8 October 2014

Researchers generate for the first time Drosophila melanogaster with intestinal cancer and reveal key genetic factors behind human colon cancer. The scientists identify a human gene that favours the proliferation ...

Crossing fields- EMBO conference on interdisciplinary plant development

Posted by , on 8 October 2014

There is something exciting about biologists joining forces with physicists and/or mathematicians, and finding a common language to solve biological problems that are just too complex to understand without stepping ...

Tough decisions for the developing brain

Posted by , on 3 October 2014

To form complex organs, somatic stem cells proliferate and then differentiate during development. In this process, intrinsic factors, i.e. the sequential expression of transcriptional genes, and extrinsic factors, i.e. extracellular ...

'From Stem Cells to Human Development' - A Company of Biologists' Workshop

Posted by , on 3 October 2014

Last week, several of the Company of Biologists’ team de-camped to Surrey for our latest Workshop ‘From Stem Cells to Human Development’. Unlike previous events, this was a larger meeting, ...

What do sperm have to do with brain tumors?

Posted by , on 2 October 2014

  This post was originally published in the Knoepfler Lab Stem Cell Blog.      Sometimes in science there are unexpected threads tying seemingly very different things together. Unraveling the ...

This month on the Node- September 2014

Posted by , on 1 October 2014

Here are some of the highlights for September:   Research: – Sylvain discussed his recent Development paper on the tristable regulatory network behind cell fate decisions in the early embryo. – Aryeh wrote about ...

The Future of Research Symposium:

The Funding of Research

Posted by , on 1 October 2014

This is the last of four posts relating to the Future of Research symposium which was announced in a previous blog post. Each of these posts will discuss a topic ...

“Smells Like Development” - The 73rd Society for Developmental Biology Meeting

Posted by , on 30 September 2014

Hosted in beautiful Seattle, the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) held its 73rd Annual Meeting on the University of Washington campus in (mostly) sunny July. Here researchers from around the ...

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