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New genome reveals ancient toolkit

Posted by , on 23 July 2024

Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus is an emerging model to understand stem cell evolution Stem cells can’t hide what they are. At least, that’s the takeaway from the newly sequenced genomes of two ...

Ready, steady, cooooooonga~

Posted by , on 8 July 2024

What is this? The video depicts the formation of the so-called lateral line in a transgenic zebrafish that I took when I was a student in Tatjana Piotrowski’s lab at ...

Royal Society Meeting on Cell Lineages

Posted by , on 9 April 2024

Birmingham, UK, May 7-8, 2024 Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre Do you study Development? Complex cellular systems? Cancer? Then we’d love to have you at our Meeting “Cell Lineages ...

Meet the Node correspondents — Shreyasi Mukherjee

Posted by , on 7 March 2024

Find out more about our new correspondent, Shreyasi Mukherjee, a postdoc at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Exploring Mammary Gland Development and Evolution with Organoid Technology

Posted by , on 6 February 2024

What is the set of instructions that directs cells as they form a tissue, and how did this set of instructions evolve throughout species evolution? In a new study, we ...

Development Journal Meeting: From Stem Cells to Human Development

Posted by , on 19 January 2024

Back in early 2013, Olivier Pourquie (Development’s then Editor-in-Chief) and I were working hard to integrate stem cell biology into Development. Reading papers and attending conferences, much of the focus ...

The backbone of stem cell derived embryos — featured image from the Node-BSDB virtual art exhibition

Posted by , on 20 December 2023

In the recent BSDB-the Node virtual art exhibition, Christoph Markus Haefelfinger’s ‘The backbone of stem cell derived embryos’ was selected as the Judges’ Choice runner-up in the ‘Scientific images’ category. ...

Plasticity of the Haematopoietic Niche: from Embryonic Development to Aging and Disease

Posted by , on 11 December 2023

Special Issue I am glad to announce a new Research Topic / Special Issue for the journal Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences (IF 5.0), edited by Prof Rio Sugimura (University of Hong ...

10th Advances in Stem Cell Biology Course (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) - Course report

Posted by , on 21 August 2023

Every year, the Pasteur Institute of Paris organizes a course on Advances in Stem Cell Biology (ASCB). Directed by Professors Laure Bally-Cuif and Shahragim Tajbakhsh, this course brings together over ...

Cell biologist turned fruit-fly fuelled biotech entrepreneur (you can do it too!)

Posted by , on 31 July 2023

I’m a trained PhD cell biologist (University of Alberta 2019), where I spent days and days locked in a dark closet taking confocal microscopy photos of fluorescently labelled organelles (my ...

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