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Paris – Cambridge – Paris: a Megakaryocyte story

Posted by , on 14 November 2016

The first news came as a shock: so the British Railways are not always perfectly on time? For an Italian, that was a massive cultural shock. The second one was even more surprising: English weather ...

Madrid Adventure to Study Autophagy in Melanoma Stem Cells

Posted by , on 20 May 2016

I am hugely grateful to the Journal of Cell Science and the Company of Biologists for awarding me a traveling fellowship to visit the laboratory of Dr Guillermo Velasco at ...

Insights into the pathogenic role of UVRAG in intestinal dysplasia

Posted by , on 4 May 2016

This post highlights the approach and findings of a new research article published in Disease Models & Mechanisms: ‘Stem cell-specific endocytic degradation defects lead to intestinal dysplasia in Drosophila’. This ...

Researchers dig up new molecular details on "the other type" of stem cells

Posted by , on 11 March 2016

Scientists at IRB Barcelona and CSIC reveal that the combination of two molecular signals determines which cells that have already differentiated can regain their stem cell properties. Their studies on ...

From our sister journals- February 2016

Posted by , on 22 February 2016

Here is some developmental biology related content from other journals published by The Company of Biologists.           Using the developmental biology toolkit to study cancer Aiello ...

Scientists shed light on how cells with an incorrect number of chromosomes lead to tumour development

Posted by , on 9 February 2016

Aneuploid cells—that is to say those with an abnormal number of chromosomes—are found in most human tumours. A study conducted at IRB Barcelona on the fly Drosophila reveals how surviving ...

Abstract deadline fast approaching: BMP Signalling in Cancer

Posted by , on 8 January 2016

BMP Signalling in Cancer 15—17 March 2016 St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, UK Join the Biochemical Society in exploring the mechanisms of BMP signal transduction and regulation of signalling, and discussing how ...

A call for abstracts: BMP Signalling in Cancer conference

Posted by , on 25 November 2015

15—17 March 2016 St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, UK   The aim of this Biochemical Society focused meeting is to explore the mechanisms of BMP signal transduction and regulation of signalling, ...

Novel mouse alleles allow for sequential mutagenesis using the dual recombinase technology

Posted by , on 20 September 2015

Genetically engineered mouse models have been used extensively to study a wide variety of biological processes in vivo, and innovations in genetic engineering have made it possible to dissect more ...

A technique dating back to 1935 is recovered for cancer research in flies

Posted by , on 15 September 2015

A study conducted by ICREA researcher Cayetano González, at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), and published in Nature Protocols describes a forgotten technique used in the fly ...

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