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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Niraimathi Govindasamy, on 27 March 2022
Niraimathi Govindasamy from the Bedzhov lab, takes us through the story behind their paper on the interactions between the embryo and maternal vasculature.Posted by Cédric Finet, on 23 February 2022
A evo-devo research story from Cédric Finet asking why are water striders so hairy.Posted by Akihiro Kaneshige, on 9 February 2022
Read the story behind the paper with Akihiro KaneshigePosted by Jeff Gross, on 14 December 2021
Read the story behind the paper with Jeff GrossPosted by Alok Javali, on 9 December 2021
In our recently published paper1, we show that human stem cells self-organize into blastocyst-like structures, which we term blastoids based on 4 criteria. Because blastoids can be generated in large ...Posted by Alina Marymonchyk, on 2 October 2021
Adult Neural Stem Cells (NSCs) have a remarkable capacity to produce new neurons and glia cells that integrate into pre-existing neural networks. Adult NSCs are found in all mammals, including humans, giving us hope of using the pool of adult ...Posted by Esteban Hoijman, on 15 July 2021
Esteban Hoijman and Verena Ruprecht describe how they found a phagocytic role for epithelial cells in early embryosPosted by Koichiro Uriu, on 30 June 2021
Koichiro Uriu, Bo-Kai Liao, Andrew Oates and Luis Morelli on the segmentation clockPosted by Henry De Belly, on 9 June 2021
Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells (ES cells) have the capacity to generate any tissue in the organism; this remarkable ability is called naïve pluripotency. Intriguingly, when ES cells start to differentiate ...Posted by Petridou, on 7 May 2021
By Bernat Corominas-Murtra and Nicoletta I. Petridou Embryo morphogenesis is a play whose outcome is the result of a complex and delicate plot, made of balances and agreements among many ...