Posted by the Node on November 18th, 2020
This Obituary by James M. A. Turner, Shantha K. Mahadevaiah, Arthur P. Arnold and Robin Lovell-Badge was recently published in Development. Paul Burgoyne was an outstanding mouse geneticist and developmental biologist who made fundamental discoveries about the sex chromosomes and their biology. He was born on 10th January 1946, spending most of his[…]
Posted by the Node on June 9th, 2020
A Press Release from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine – see the Development paper by Lisa Vrooman, Marisa Bartolomei and colleagues here. An experimental study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania links a specific procedure – embryo culture – that is part of the assisted reproduction[…]
Posted by Imtiyaz Ahmad Khanday on January 29th, 2019
The story behind our recent Nature paper ‘A male-expressed rice embryogenic trigger redirected for asexual propagation through seeds‘ For sexually reproducing organisms, the diploid life cycle starts with the fusion of a sperm cell with an egg cell. This process, known as fertilization, results in the formation of a zygote, the first diploid cell from[…]
Posted by BPayer on July 11th, 2018
We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated candidate to join our group for a PostDoc position. In the Payer lab (http://www.crg.eu/bernhard_payer), we study epigenetic reprogramming in the mammalian germ line and the effects of ageing on fertility. In this project the prospective candidate will study the molecular links between ageing and oocyte quality decline[…]
Posted by Aidan Maartens on January 16th, 2018
The impact of developmental biology on society is particularly acute when it comes to reproduction – research informs efforts to assist reproduction and understand what happens when pregnancy goes wrong. Recent developments in stem cells, culturing conditions, gene editing and sequencing are also revealing aspects of human embryonic development previously hidden from us. Here at[…]