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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by the Node Interviews, on 29 November 2017
Pavement cells in plant leaves were identified as a puzzle which deviated from normal cell shape rules by D’Arcy Thompson in his classic text On Growth and Form. Now modern approaches ...Posted by AlessandroDonada, 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 ...Posted by the Node, on 29 March 2016
This obituary first appeared in Development. Patrick Müller and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard reflect on the life and career of their colleague Hans Meinhardt. Hans Meinhardt, a pioneer in the field ...Posted by Joseph Barry, on 11 January 2016
The signalling systems that conduct the orchestra of embryonic development are fantastically complex and dynamic. We owe much of our knowledge of in vivo signalling dynamics to advances in microscopy ...Posted by Mike Levin, on 7 November 2015
One of the most important problems in experimental biology has to do with variability / heterogeneity (Rubin, 1990): why do different organisms react differently to the same perturbation or ...Posted by Mike Levin, on 30 October 2015
Pattern formation and regulation emerges from cellular activity determined by specific biophysical and genetic rules. A major challenge for developmental biology, biomedicine, and synthetic bioengineering is this highly indirect (Lobo ...Posted by Pierre-François Lenne, on 9 October 2015
We are happy to announce the forthcoming workshop on « Tissue mechanics in morphogenesis: Focus on theoretical modeling ». This is an informal workshop open to anyone, theorist or experimentalist, ...Posted by Miquel Marin-Riera, on 4 October 2015
One of the main challenges of Developmental Biology is to understand the complex developmental mechanisms giving rise to different organs or whole organisms. In most cases, these involve the interplay ...Posted by D. Bullara, on 23 September 2015
D. Bullara* and Y. De Decker *domenico.bullara@mail.com When Catarina Vicente (Community Manager of “The Node”) proposed us to write a post about our recent paper on pattern formation in ...Posted by the Node, on 4 August 2015
This interview first featured in Development. Lewis Wolpert is a retired developmental biologist who, over his long career, has made many important contributions to the field, from his French Flag ...