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Minipigs get stem cell transplants to treat blindness

Posted by , on 20 December 2024

PRESS RELEASE: Millions of people around the world are affected by retinal degenerative diseases. In most cases, loss of vision is caused by damage to the macula, a region in ...

Catch up on Development presents… December webinar on germ cell development

Posted by , on 15 December 2023

Catch up on the talks on germ cell development from Gabriele Zaffagnini, Diego Sainz de la Maza and Güneş Taylor.

Catch up on Development presents… November webinar on development and disease

Posted by , on 22 November 2023

Catch up on the talks on metabolism and development from Mauricio Rocha-Martins, Nicole Edwards and Cecilia Arriagada.

The birth of vision

Posted by , on 9 September 2019

By decoding the genetic mechanisms that control the neurons of the visual system, researchers at UNIGE are unveiling the first steps in the construction of vision, paving the way for ...

Turning back the clock of neural progenitor cells: a simple recipe to generate de novo retinal ganglion cells

Posted by , on 12 August 2019

Press release for a new Development paper on reprogramming in the retina. Scientists at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute of Molecular ...

The people behind the papers – Li-Juan Duan and Guo-Hua Fong

Posted by , on 23 May 2019

This interview, the 62nd in our series, was recently published in Development Vascular development critically involves pruning, which helps to remodel an immature network containing excess microvessels into a mature and functioning ...

Obituary: Jarema Malicki (1965-2019)

Posted by , on 6 March 2019

This obituary by Colin Johnson recently appeared in Development. Jarema Malicki, a pioneer in developmental studies of the vertebrate retina, died on 4th January 2019, shortly after being diagnosed with ...

Staying in shape

Posted by , on 5 October 2018

If you’re into developmental biology, chances are you’ve spent some time in your life thinking about how cells change the shapes of tissues. What would cells need to do in ...

An interview with Bill Harris

Posted by , on 6 July 2017

This interview by Aidan Maartens originally appeared in Development, Volume 143, Issue 13.    William ‘Bill’ Harris is Head of the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University ...

Stone Soup Eyes

Posted by , on 16 April 2014

Another installment from the Developmental Neurobiology Students at Reed College. Hope you enjoy! It’s not often that you get to recount the classic tale of Stone Soup when thinking about ...

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