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Behind the paper story: From a tiny primordium to a fully developed gynoecium

Posted by , on 5 July 2024

In this post, I invite you to join me on the journey through our recent article titled “Two Orthogonal Differentiation Gradients Locally Coordinate Fruit Morphogenesis.” This story started when I ...

AdamTS matrix metalloproteases mediate basement membrane heterogeneity required for organ elongation

Posted by , on 4 July 2024

Basement membranes (BMs) are thin, specialized extracellular matrices that surround most tissues and organs (Jayadev and Sherwood, 2017). These meshworks serve as scaffolds for cell adhesion, influencing cell signaling, cell ...

How we found a switch from genitalia to limbs

Posted by , on 28 June 2024

While the vertebrate body consists of diverse structures formed during embryogenesis, there is a limited number of genetic regulatory modules that are repurposed in different developmental contexts. For example, the ...

An interview with 2024 BSDB Beddington Medal winner Delan Alasaadi

Posted by , on 19 June 2024

We recently caught up with Delan Alasaadi, who received the 2024 British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB) Beddington Medal for the best PhD thesis in developmental biology defended in the ...

Lab meeting with the Ríos-Barrera lab

Posted by , on 13 June 2024

Meet the Rios-Barrera lab, based in UNAM, Mexico City. The lab uses the Drosophila respiratory system to study the sub- and supracellular mechanisms of morphogenesis.

How do jellyfish regenerate their tentacles?

Posted by , on 27 May 2024

Read the story behind the paper "Distinct stem-like cell populations facilitate functional regeneration of the Cladonema medusa tentacle".

Lab meeting with the Kierzkowski Lab

Posted by , on 22 May 2024

Meet the Kierzkowski Lab, located in the Montréal Botanical Garden. The lab studies plant organogenesis using systems such as Arabidopsis and Physcomitrium.

Joint International GfE/DSDB Meeting – Meeting report

Posted by , on 8 May 2024

What better place to hold a conference than a castle? Well, the 25th Conference of the German Society for Developmental Biology (GfE) was held in the historic castle of Osnabrück ...

April in preprints

Posted by , on 6 May 2024

A list of developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints uploaded in April.

The shrimp Parhyale hawaiensis – a non-model organism research story with Dr. Michalis Averof

Posted by , on 28 April 2024

Earlier this year, my co-correspondent for the Node Brent Foster and I published a pot pourri-style interview article asking biology researchers about their work with non-model organisms (NMOs). As they ...

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