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An interview with Tatsushi Igaki

Posted by , on 10 December 2015

This interview first featured on Disease Models and Mechanisms.   Tatsushi Igaki is currently based at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Biostudies, where he leads a research group dedicated ...

BSDB Gurdon Summer Studentship Report (4)

Posted by , on 20 November 2015

In 2014, the British Society of Developmental Biology (BSDB) has initiated the Gurdon Summer Studentship program with the intention to provide highly motivated students with exceptional qualities and a strong ...

An interview with Mike Levine

Posted by , on 20 October 2015

This interview first featured in Development.   Mike Levine, director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, is a developmental biologist who has dedicated his career to understanding ...

EDRC 2015 Meeting report: "Ich hab mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren"

Posted by , on 8 October 2015

Hundreds of fly researchers from Europe and around the world gathered in the picturesque German city of Heidelberg to attend the European Drosophila Research Conference or EDRC. The local organizers ...

An interview with Irene Miguel-Aliaga

Posted by , on 6 October 2015

This interview first featured in the Journal of Cell Science and is part of their interview series Cell Scientists to Watch   Irene Miguel-Aliaga left sunny Barcelona to pursue a ...

From our sister journals- September 2015

Posted by , on 28 September 2015

Here is some developmental biology related content from other journals published by The Company of Biologists.             Auditory hair cell defects in Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome ...

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 ...

Tumour suppressor genes curb growth in neighbouring cells

Posted by , on 28 August 2015

The healthy development of an organism depends on its tissues and organs growing to the right size, stopping when they need to, and maintaining stability in their form and function. ...

Key protein in cilia assembly identified

Posted by , on 21 August 2015

The group led by ICREA Research Professor Cayetano Gonzalez at IRB Barcelona, in collaboration with the group of Professor Giuliano Callaini from the University of Siena in Italy, has published ...

The protein that keeps cells static is found to play a key role in cell movement

Posted by , on 14 August 2015

The protein E-Cadherin (E-Cad) is a kind of adhesive that keeps cells tightly bound together, thus favouring the organisation of tissues and organs. Scientists at the Institute for Research in ...

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