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Meeting review: BSDB/Anne McLaren Memorial Trust 2016 Autumn Meeting

Posted by , on 10 February 2017

The use of chimaeras to study developmental mechanisms: from lineage tracing to disease models   Under the sponsorship of the Anne McLaren Memorial Trust Fund and The Company of Biologists, ...

The people behind the papers: Philippe Foerster & Nathalie Spassky

Posted by , on 8 February 2017

Radial glial cells are multipotent progenitors in the developing vertebrate brain. At their apical interface with the ventricular cavity around which the brain forms, they bear a primary cilium, a signalling ...

Research Technician position near Washington DC

Posted by , on 3 February 2017

A position (#122764) is available immediately for a Research Technician/Faculty Specialist to contribute to our studies in neural crest and placodes. The Technician will conduct research, assist in the training ...

The people behind the papers: Nicolas Macaisne & J. Mark Cock

Posted by , on 1 February 2017

The brown alga Ectocarpus has emerged as a model system for the evolution of muticellularity. Today’s paper, from the current issue of Development, investigates the role and evolutionary history of a gene implicated ...

Lifemap: a zoomable interface for exploring the entire Tree of Life

Posted by , on 30 January 2017

“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution” (Dobzansky, 1973). Our knowledge of the evolutionary relationships between all known organisms, the so-called Tree of Life (ToL), is ...

The tale of three cities – Valdivia, Jyväskylä and London

Posted by , on 23 January 2017

This is the latest dispatch from a recipient of a Company of Biologists Travelling Fellowship. Learn more about the scheme, including how to apply, here, and read more stories from the ...

Kicking It Up a Notch: Becoming a Culturally Relevant Science Educator

Posted by , on 19 January 2017

I want to talk about how you can take your science teaching to the next level, where young people, and especially underrepresented young people (people of color, LGBT, immigrants, girls, ...

Honouring developmental biology

Posted by , on 12 January 2017

The New Year’s honours list recognises citizens who have made achievements in public life and committed themselves to serving and helping Britain. This year three prominent developmental and stem cell biologists ...

From Stem Cells to Human Development: video and gallery

Posted by , on 11 January 2017

In September 2016, Development held its second meeting dedicated to human development. You can read about the meeting in a review by April Craft and Matthew Johnson in this week’s issue, ...

The people behind the papers: Miguel Brun-Usan & Isaac Salazar-Ciudad

Posted by , on 4 January 2017

The tenth paper featured in this series comes from the first issue of Development for 2017, and uses computational modelling to investigate the importance of different cellular processes in spiral ...

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