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Establishing connections

Posted by , on 16 December 2020

Jos Wendrich, Yvan Saeys and Bert De Rybel take us on a single cell journey through the Arabidopsis root

The people behind the papers – Priyanka Govindaraju and Enrico Scarpella

Posted by , on 12 December 2020

This interview, the 84th in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  The veins are the vascular networks of plant leaves, functioning as channels for transport of signals and nutrients. ...

Mechanisms of synapse loss during neurodegeneration and ageing

Posted by , on 4 December 2020

https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=127506 Exciting PhD project supervised by Dr Sanchez-Soriano and Dr Alison Twelvetrees through the MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership on mechanisms of synapse loss during neurodegeneration and ageing.   The ...

November in preprints

Posted by , on 4 December 2020

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv – use these links to get to the section ...

Development through the pandemic

Posted by , on 2 December 2020

With this strange and difficult year drawing to a close, I wanted to take the opportunity to update our community on how things have been going at Development through pandemic ...

The people behind the papers – Daniel Osborn, Kuoyu Li and Simon Hughes

Posted by , on 10 November 2020

This interview, the 81st in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  A crucial step in vertebrate muscle development is the activation of myogenic regulatory factors (MRFs) that direct myogenesis. ...

October in preprints

Posted by , on 2 November 2020

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv – use these links to get to the section ...

The people behind the papers – Megha Agarwal, Akashi Sharma, Pankaj Kumar, Amit Kumar and Sam Mathew

Posted by , on 24 October 2020

This interview, the 80th in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  Myosin is a major component of the sarcomeres of muscle, but its roles during muscle development are still ...

Looking to crustaceans to understand insect wing evolution

Posted by , on 19 October 2020

The wings of vertebrates, like birds and bats, emerged relatively recently, and we understand that these wings evolved from forelimbs. Even for the mythological dragon there seems to be a ...

Traditional Embryology with Modern Imaging Approaches: Investigating Morphogenetic Feedback on Pattern Formation

Posted by , on 9 October 2020

Timothy Fulton, Vikas Trivedi, Andrea Attardi & Benjamin Steventon As developmental biologists, we often find ourselves carefully looking at developing embryos as they undertake a dramatic and fascinating task: making ...

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