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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Robin Journot, on 4 September 2025
Behind the paper story focussed on research on early fate decisions in bilayered epithelia.Posted by Isaia Vardanega, on 12 June 2025
Why do some grass species like rice have multiple grains developing on primary and secondary branches, while others like barley only have one 'spikelet' developing into a single grain?Posted by Yamini Ravichandran, on 4 June 2025
Behind the paper: “Topology changes of Hydra define actin orientation defects as organizers of morphogenesis”Posted by Madalena Pinto, on 30 May 2025
Madalena M. Reimão Pinto (Schier lab, University of Basel, Switzerland) and Sebastian Castillo Hair (Seelig lab, Washington University, Seattle, USA) joined forces to understand how zebrafish embryos orchestrate protein synthesis ...Posted by Sandra de Haan, on 8 May 2025
Co-authored by Sandra de Haan and Jingyan He In our recently published paper ‘Ectoderm barcoding reveals neural and cochlear compartmentalization‘, we utilized ultrasound-guided in utero nano injections to deliver heritable DNA barcodes ...Posted by Neelima Sharma, on 30 April 2025
[Behind the paper story of “Synovial joints were present in the common ancestor of jawed fish but lacking in jawless fish”.] Synovial joints are marvels of biological evolution where two ...Posted by Tomotsune Ameku, on 30 April 2025
Tomotsune Ameku tells the story behind the paper "Growth of the maternal intestine during reproduction"Posted by Li-Kun Phng, on 2 April 2025
Behind the Paper Story by Li-Kun PhngPosted by Xuanmao Chen, on 12 March 2025
The people behind the papers – Juan Yang and Xuanmao Chen In mammalian embryos, brains develop from the inside out, with younger neurons moving to the outer layers in a ...Posted by Mathi Thiruppathy, on 6 March 2025
Humans and other tetrapods evolved from aquatic fish. In making this leap, tetrapods evolved lungs to breathe air and lost respiratory gills. It is tempting to intuit that lungs evolved ...