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Posted by Eva Amsen, on 7 April 2011
You’ve seen the news: ES cells generate a 3D retinal structure. But what does this tell us about eye development? In the developing embryo, the first step toward a functional ...Posted by Emma Kemp, on 11 March 2011
I expect many of you have already seen reports that the European Advocate General has taken a very restrictive view on patents for technologies that use human embyronic stem cells. ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 10 March 2011
[updated 25/3/2011] Video was temporarily removed from Vimeo. Will repost it when it’s back up.Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 9 March 2011
The power of stem cells lies in the ability to give rise to many different cell types. The stem cells found in the neural crest are no exception, and a ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 3 March 2011
Update 23/09/19: Please note that the below piece links to Dipity, a now defunct website. Over at the Drop In Blog you can read the story of what happened to ...Posted by Emma Kemp, on 2 March 2011
The discovery of iPS made headlines the world over, and rightly so. But recently, transdifferentiation between somatic cell types has also been the focus of considerable attention. A couple of ...Posted by katja.linssen, on 1 March 2011
10 – 13 September 2011, Vienna, Austria Featuring more than 120 world-class scientific speakers, including: Richard Axel, Susan Lindquist, Eric Wieschaus and Giacomo Rizzolatti. Three plenary lecture sessions: microbiology of ...Posted by Teisha Rowland, on 13 February 2011
With so much research focusing on stem cells, I’ve been wondering lately whether researchers are overlooking other important, multipotent cell groups, specifically what are called “progenitor” cells. But then another ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 9 February 2011
What I love about developmental biology is the collaborative nature of the field. The vast majority of biologists feel that by sharing ideas, data, and reagents, we can learn more ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 8 February 2011
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: From pluripotent to pancreatic fates A reliable method for generating insulin-producing β-cells from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) would provide ...