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Posted by Naomi Clements-Brod, 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 ...Posted by Sergio Menchero, 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, ...Posted by Kat Arney, 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.Posted by Helen Zenner, 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 ...Posted by Ruth Styfhals, 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 ...Posted by Guojun, 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 ...Posted by Anna Granés, 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 ...Posted by hannah cowling, 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 ...Posted by Laura Rihova, 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 ...Posted by Delia Capatina, 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. ...