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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by the Node, on 21 August 2014
This obituary first appeared in Development. Stefano Piccolo looks back at the life and research of his friend and colleague Yoshiki Sasai. On 5 August 2014, Yoshiki Sasai died at ...Posted by Catarina Vicente, on 7 August 2014
Coming from a cell biology background, one of the most exciting things about attending developmental biology conferences for me is the range of (unusual) model organisms used in this field. ...Posted by Thomas Butts, on 4 August 2014
They are a mouthful, paper titles, sometimes. This is exactly the sort of title that would have made me ignore it in the days when I worked on the evolution ...Posted by the Node, on 4 August 2014
This obituary first appeared in Development. Also read other obituaries about Walter Gehring in Science, EMBO Journal and Developmental Cell. Alex Schier looks back at the life and research of ...Posted by hmsouza, on 13 July 2014
By Henrique Marques-Souza and Rodrigo Nunes da Fonseca Widely known as the country of soccer, samba and beautiful beaches, one might wonder if it is possible to perform high ...Posted by the Node, on 25 June 2014
This obituary first appeared in Development. Paul Martin and David Ish-Horowicz look back on the life and work of their long-time friend and colleague Julian Lewis, who passed away on April 30th ...Posted by Megan Wilson, on 18 June 2014
After serving on some academic selection committees recently, I’m worried about the future of some of our young scientists. Especially concerning are the number of applications where the candidate, pursuing ...Posted by kjchalut, on 17 June 2014
Once upon a time, physicists got curious about the cytoskeleton. They characterised the cytoskeleton – using tools of soft matter, statistical and polymer physics – as a mesoscale material whose ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 27 May 2014
Decisions, decisions…aren’t those one of our main worries? It is certainly the everyday worry of a stem cell! Understanding stem cell decisions is a central question in the field: how ...Posted by IRBBarcelona, on 27 May 2014
The research headed by Roger Gomis at IRB Barcelona, with the collaboration of Joan Massagué, describes that the loss of the suppressor RARRES3 promotes the colonization of breast cancer cells ...