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Understanding Variants of Uncertain Significance in Congenital Anomalies. Submit your clinically relevant variant(s) through our portal.

Posted by , on 27 February 2024

What we see Approximately 1 in 20 babies are born with severe anatomical malformations. Each year this equates to 8 million affected newborns, of which 300,000 die within the first ...

Exploring Mammary Gland Development and Evolution with Organoid Technology

Posted by , on 6 February 2024

What is the set of instructions that directs cells as they form a tissue, and how did this set of instructions evolve throughout species evolution? In a new study, we ...

Meeting report - “Genes, cells and embryos in development and evolution: Pere Alberch 25 years on”

Posted by , on 19 December 2023

I read the name of Pere Alberch for the first time while leafing through a collection of articles on Ecology and Evolution edited by the Universidad Autónoma de México [1]. ...

The power of micropeptides in brains and society

Posted by , on 18 December 2023

In this piece, I reflect on my recent scientific work as a lesson on how reductive definitions can overlook some of the most impactful discoveries and individuals in a collective.

Conference Alert! The Neural Crest: From Patient to Model System and back again

Posted by , on 9 November 2023

Come join us next year in France to discuss all things Neural Crest: From patient to model system and back agan.This conference is organised by the Ph.D students of the ...

Secondary school teachers’ residency in lab

Posted by , on 5 October 2023

In June of this year, five secondary school teachers who teach BTEC and A levels students from Wales and Oxfordshire spent a week with us at the Department of Physiology ...

"I am a developmental biologist"

Posted by , on 22 August 2023

I didn’t become aware of developmental biology (DevBio) until a lecture during my first year of undergraduate studies. From that moment on, however, I was hooked and even changed my ...

10th Advances in Stem Cell Biology Course (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) - Course report

Posted by , on 21 August 2023

Every year, the Pasteur Institute of Paris organizes a course on Advances in Stem Cell Biology (ASCB). Directed by Professors Laure Bally-Cuif and Shahragim Tajbakhsh, this course brings together over ...

Avian Model Systems 11 deadline extended to July 21st

Posted by , on 4 July 2023

The abstract submission deadline for the 11th Avian Model Systems meeting, 11-14 September 2023 in Portsmouth, UK, as been extended to 21 July 2023. The conference will for the first ...

Deadline extended to June 27th

Posted by , on 22 June 2023

Looking forward to welcome you to our EMBO Workshop – Developmental metabolism: flows of energy, matter, and information

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