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Tiny titans: fantastic worms and their powerful regenerative abilities

Posted by , on 19 January 2025

In their paper recently published in Evolution & Development, Vanessa Spieß, Rannyele P. Ribeiro and colleagues explore the regenerative abilities of the marine segmented worm Syllis malaquini. Their research reveals ...

Behind the paper: "Recording morphogen signals reveals origins of gastruloid symmetry breaking"

Posted by , on 17 January 2025

Stem cell models as laboratories to study self-organization My road from physics to developmental biology began in a journal club during my PhD in Adam Cohen’s lab at Harvard. We ...

Winding road to the cambial stem cells

Posted by , on 13 January 2025

In plants, the vascular cambium, a bifacial stem cell niche, drives wood formation by generating the xylem on one side and the phloem on the other. In this post, Ari ...

Behind the paper: “Temporal variability and cell mechanics control robustness in mammalian embryogenesis”

Posted by , on 15 December 2024

The massive presence of disorder and variability challenges the traditional metaphor of the developmental process as a perfectly executed program leading to precise mechanisms at every level [1,2]. Yet, the ...

Don’t eat me!!

Posted by , on 15 November 2024

When I joined the Zon lab in June 2021, my mentor, Leonard Zon, shared an insightful piece of advice: “A good project always has two questions, one you can answer ...

Behind the paper: A transcriptomic hourglass in brown algae

Posted by , on 12 November 2024

Brown algae are a group of complex multicellular eukaryotes, unrelated to animals, plants and fungi. It follows that brown algae evolved the process of multicellular development independently, offering a unique ...

Behind the paper: Highlighting skeleton-producing cells during the development of a pentaradial animal

Posted by , on 24 September 2024

Read the story behind the paper "Localization and origins of juvenile skeletogenic cells in the sea urchin Lytechinus pictus" from Heidi Tate.

Making a map: exploring the origins of the shoulder and neck

Posted by , on 18 September 2024

Read the story behind the paper "Multiple embryonic sources converge to form the pectoral girdle skeleton in zebrafish" from first author Shunya Kuroda.

A short rant on the present and future of developmental biology

Posted by , on 11 September 2024

Observing a cluster of migrating cells or a developing embryo through the lens of a microscope can be a visceral experience; one is struck by the ephemeral beauty, layered complexity, ...

The bumpy journey to the signal that kicks off endosperm development

Posted by , on 9 September 2024

Here, Sara Simonini and Ueli Grossniklaus from the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology and Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, tell the story behind the paper “A paternal ...

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