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Made the Same Way: A new podcast about what makes us human

Posted by , on 21 April 2023

Everyone is different, but we all start as a fertilised egg – we’re made the same way. Scientists in the Wellcome-funded Human Developmental Biology Initiative are trying to understand more ...

YEN Conference 2023: Registration is open!

Posted by , on 13 April 2023

A new edition of the annual Young Embryologist Network conference (YEN 2023) will be hosted at the Francis Crick Institute, in London, on the 22nd of May 2023. YEN conferences, ...

Genetics Unzipped: Bye-bye boys: the genetics behind the extinction of males

Posted by , on 23 March 2023

We’re saying bye-bye to the boys, and exploring whether new gene technologies and climate change will make males extinct.

An interview with Scott Gilbert

Posted by , on 1 March 2023

Scott Gilbert literally wrote the book on developmental biology! With the 13th edition of ‘Developmental Biology’ about to be published, we took the opportunity to find out more about the ...

Charting new territory: mapping the cell types in the octopus brain

Posted by , on 17 February 2023

Ruth Styfhals and Dr. Eve Seuntjens at the KU Leuven, Belgium, recently published a cell type atlas of a developing octopus brain in Nature Communications. The team behind the paper ...

Human Development Meeting in Japan

Posted by , on 10 January 2023

March 5-10, 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Asia will host a human development meeting in Awaji (Japan). Join us in this beautiful island and meet like-minded, human-centric dev bio and stem ...

BSDB Gurdon Studentship Report – Anna Granés

Posted by , on 21 December 2022

The making of colorful neuromesodermal progenitors During the embryonic development, while the gastrulation process is taking place, cells within embryos self-organize by creating groups and layers of cells, where each ...

Molecular study of changing expression of photoreceptor genes throughout development of Anopheles gambiae

Posted by , on 18 December 2022

Hannah Cowling, MBiol at Durham University Introduction Over summer 2022, I had the opportunity to work with Dr Olena Riabinina in Insect Neuro Lab at Durham University. Her team specialises ...

BSDB Gurdon Studentship Report – Rihova

Posted by , on 15 December 2022

Determining the Effects of FOXG1 Mutations on Early Neurodevelopmental Structures Using iPSCs I am an undergraduate Neuroscience student at University College London interested in researching neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders. I ...

BSDB Gurdon Summer Studentship Report - Delia Capatina

Posted by , on 28 November 2022

Investigating the rules of cell-to-cell interaction during pre-somitic mesoderm elongation I discovered the field of developmental biology through independent reading during the first year of my undergraduate biomedical sciences program. ...

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