Navigate the archive
Use our Advanced Search tool to search and filter posts by date, category, tags and authors.
developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Swarnadip Ghosh, on 19 February 2025
Written by Swarnadip Ghosh & Soumyashree Das Behind the Paper Story of “Development of pial collaterals by extension of pre-existing artery tips” What we do and how we do it? ...Posted by Nicola_Festuccia, on 10 February 2025
The elusive importance of NR5A2 and ESRRB as pluripotency factors Our paper entitled “Nr5a2 is dispensable for zygotic genome activation but essential for morula development” is the culmination of a ...Posted by Mariana Maia-Gil, on 3 February 2025
In their recent paper, Maia-Gil and colleagues explored whether and how nuclear properties can influence nuclear positioning in vivo. Their work revealed that in the densely packed retinal zebrafish neuroepithelium, ...Posted by Kalki Kukreja, on 25 January 2025
Behind the paper story for “Cell state transitions are decoupled from cell division during early embryo development“ As embryos develop, their cells perform two fundamental tasks: they divide to populate ...Posted by Rannyele Passos Ribeiro, 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 ...Posted by Harry McNamara, 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 ...Posted by Ari Pekka Mähönen, 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 ...Posted by Bernat Corominas-Murtra, 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 ...Posted by Cecilia Pessoa, 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 ...Posted by Jaruwatana Sodai Lotharukpong, 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 ...