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Posted by the Node, on 29 July 2015
Developmental biology is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, as biologists team up with physicists and mathematicians to address new and classical problems in the field from a new perspective. But should we ...Posted by spalcy, on 13 November 2014
The Institut Pasteur (Paris, France) announces an international call for group leader positions in the field of quantitative biology and modeling in developmental systems. Successful applicants will be integrated into ...Posted by Catarina Vicente, on 8 October 2014
There is something exciting about biologists joining forces with physicists and/or mathematicians, and finding a common language to solve biological problems that are just too complex to understand without stepping ...Posted by Milos Blagojevic, on 4 August 2014
Nowadays, the hardest thing in science is similar to what we experience in daily life, that is organization and choice. In a virtual plethora of techniques, methods and analyses, an ...Posted by Jacqueline Moustakas-Verho, on 23 July 2014
Turtles are strange organisms, and their development is wonderfully idiosyncratic. What other vertebrate alters its bone development to make an ossified mobile home? The turtle has perplexed biologists for many ...Posted by Kalin D. Narov, on 31 August 2012
This rather lengthy summary describes a fascinating progress in the field of GRN modeling; it is a review of the article “Predictive computation of genomic logic processing functions in embryonic ...Posted by Hillel Kugler, on 23 December 2011
Many tissues and organs contain self-renewing stem cell populations that are crucial for their maintenance. Synthesizing the relative effects of anatomical constraints, cell proliferation dynamics and cell fate specification on ...Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 20 June 2011
Here is part 3 of my report on the 2011 BSCB-BSDB Spring Conference this April in Canterbury. In the first part, I covered Mark Krasnow’s amazing opening lecture on lung ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 26 October 2010
Research highlights from the current issue of Development: Novel Hh targets fly in Hedgehog (Hh), a secreted morphogen, acts in a paracrine fashion to regulate tissue patterning during embryogenesis. Its ...