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Alan Turing’s patterning system can explain the arrangement of shark scales

Posted by , on 7 November 2018

Understanding how complex biological patterns arise is a long standing and fascinating area of scientific research. The patterning, or spatial arrangement, of vertebrate skin appendages (such as feathers, hair and ...

How do pigment cells wander around?

Posted by , on 29 June 2018

The story behind melanocyte BACE2, posted by Yan Zhang and Richard White. You can read our recently published full article at Developmental Cell using this link.   Our story began six ...

Lighting Up the Central Dogma in Development

Posted by , on 19 June 2018

We recently published a manuscript in Cell that describes a method to image transcription factor concentration dynamics in real time, in living embryos, using a nanobody-based protein tag that we ...

Borders and communities: solving old puzzles with new tools

Posted by , on 10 May 2018

An important question in developmental biology is how regions with distinct identity are established despite the intermingling of cells that occurs during growth and morphogenesis. Our recent work revisited some ...

The people behind the papers - David Turner & Peter Baillie-Johnson

Posted by , on 6 November 2017

Embryonic patterning is dependent on the establishment of the anteroposterior (AP) and dorsoventral axes early in development. In mammals this occurs by a breaking of symmetry in the epiblast, however ...

The people behind the papers: Dae Seok Eom & David Parichy

Posted by , on 7 April 2017

Macrophages are usually associated with immunity, but have increasingly appreciated functions in development and homeostasis. This week we meet the authors of a recent Science paper that identified a role ...

How a cell becomes a giant: a fluctuation-driven patterning mechanism

Posted by , on 22 March 2017

Heather M. Meyer1, José Teles2, and Pau Formosa-Jordan2   1 Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and the graduate field of Genetics, Genomics, and Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, ...

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 ...

Towards a synthetic embryo

Posted by , on 24 September 2014

Waddington, whose writings on the epigenetic landscape continue to influence developmental biology to this day, called the developing embryo “the most intriguing object that nature has to offer”(Waddington, 1966). The ...

Mouse Molecular Genetics 2013

Posted by , on 24 June 2013

Mouse Molecular Genetics 18-21 September 2013 Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK Abstract and Bursary deadline: 19 July | Registration deadline: 7 August We are pleased to announce that ...

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