Posted by Carla Lloret-Fernandez, on 25 March 2021
By Rachel Bonnington, Carla Lloret Fernández and Laura Molina García Classically, developmental programmes were believed to be a one-way linear process in which cells progressively acquire their differentiated identities, each ...Posted by the Node, on 15 January 2021
Yesterday we held the fourth webinar in our series, this time chaired by Development Editor Swathi Arur. Here you’ll find recordings of the talks and their live Q&A sessions moderated ...Posted by Oliver Hobert, on 1 October 2020
Following the initial discovery of the homeobox in the 1980s in invertebrates and then vertebrates, it became quickly clear that homeobox genes come in two flavors – that of the ...Posted by the Node Interviews, on 13 January 2020
This interview, the 73rd in our series, was recently published in Development. Animal cytokinesis is driven by an actomyosin ring that assembles at the cell equator and constricts to physically separate the ...Posted by the Node Interviews, on 13 March 2019
This interview, the 59th in our series, was recently published in Development The control of timing in development is crucial, both within and between tissues. Heterochrony involves shifts in the rate of ...Posted by the Node Interviews, on 18 January 2019
This interview, the 55th in our series, was published in Development last year Sperm development and differentiation are regulated by somatic cells and the extracellular signals they produce – often regulators of ...Posted by Sophie PR Gilbert, on 9 July 2018
I recently attended the biennial Development, Cell Biology and Gene Expression C. elegans Meeting, this time in combination with the 2018 European Worm Meeting, in Barcelona. C. elegans meetings are ...Posted by Sarah Hall, on 19 April 2018
Sarah E. Hall Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244 For over a century, the nature versus nurture debate has questioned the relative contributions of genetic sequences and ...Posted by Shyi-Chyi, on 17 February 2018
The key results of our recent paper in Nature Cell Biology Cell polarization defines the spatial biological specificities in a cell. During the first cell cycle of a C. elegans ...Posted by Ahmed Elewa, on 18 January 2018
The epic journey of embryogenesis begins with a set of maternal instructions. These instructions are in the form of transcribed mRNA, some even translated into proteins and ready for action. ...