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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by the Node, on 16 June 2015
This interview was first published in Development. Rudolf Jaenisch is a Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the current ...Posted by the Node, on 16 June 2015
This interview was first published in Development. Deepak Srivastava is a Director at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and a Distinguished Professor in Paediatric Developmental Cardiology at the University of California, ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 1 April 2015
Mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) are by definition cells that can self-renew (make identical copies of themselves) and specialize into any cell type of the body. Since their discovery, scientists ...Posted by the Node, on 18 December 2014
This article by Insoo Hyun was first published in Development. Also read the companion ethics article here. In recent years, there has been much interest in the prospect of generating and using human stem cells ...Posted by the Node, on 18 December 2014
This article by Göran Hermerén was first published in Development. Also read the companion ethics article here. The development of human pluripotent stem cells has opened up the possibility to analyse the ...Posted by the Node, on 16 December 2014
This editorial was first published in Development. It was written by Olivier Pourquié, Benoit Bruneau, Gordon Keller and Austin Smith. The past 30 years or so have witnessed tremendous advances in ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 7 December 2014
Thanks to microscopy, scientists can compete with the most talented photographers and take the most astonishing pictures! Although I have been focusing on microscopy pictures in this blog, microscopy is ...Posted by Andrea Aguilar, on 2 December 2014
Dear Node readers, My name is Andrea Aguilar and I am replacing Caroline Hendry, Development‘s stem cells reviews editor, during her maternity leave. To spice things up a bit, I figured ...Posted by BSDB, on 27 November 2014
In 2014, the BSDB has initiated the Gurdon Summer Studentship program with the intention to provide highly motivated students with exceptional qualities and a strong interest in Developmental Biology an ...Posted by Federico Luzzati, on 13 November 2014
In the early ‘90s, the discovery of neural stem cells in the adult brain aroused hope to exploit these cells to treat neurodegenerative diseases or even induce brain regeneration. Yet, ...