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Posted by Gary McDowell, on 3 September 2013
After fertilization, embryos undergo rapid, synchronous cell divisions until the point of the midblastula transition (MBT) where the cell cycle lengthens. This transition is also known as the maternal-zygotic ...Posted by Gary McDowell, on 19 August 2013
For decades, the development of the early embryo and patterning of tissues has been studied with the help of a workhorse of developmental biology, the frog embryo. Xenopus embryos are ...Posted by Gary McDowell, on 26 July 2013
Perhaps, like me, you’ve been microinjecting Xenopus embryos for so long that you start seeing strange things – maybe that they’re waving at you. But perhaps that’s not so ...Posted by Victoria Hatch, on 18 February 2013
Have you ever thought to yourself ‘Hey, that inanimate object looks just like a xenopus!’ No? Well maybe after reading this you will. I started a PhD in a Xenopus lab ...Posted by Victoria Hatch, on 20 November 2012
SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSITION AVAILABLE Neural Crest Development in Xenopus £30,122 to £35,938 per annum A Post ...Posted by Victoria Hatch, on 20 November 2012
SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA PhD POSITION AVAILABLE The role of microRNAs in neural crest development MicroRNAs (miR) are short, non-coding RNAs around 22 ...Posted by Rachael Inglis, on 14 September 2012
Given that most readers of this post will be developmental biologists, it seems slightly unnecessary to point out that development is an amazing, beautiful process. But it’s true! The expansion ...Posted by Victoria Hatch, on 10 April 2012
The UK national Xenopus conference is an annual event held to discuss the exciting and extremely varied work carried out across the UK using the African clawed frog (Xenopus) as ...Posted by Jorge Beira, on 29 February 2012
4th Young Embryologist Meeting Friday 1st June 2012 UCL Institute of Child Health, London Registration and Abstract Submission NOW OPEN (until March 31st) The 4th ...Posted by Ger Sabio, on 31 January 2012
The International course on Developmental Biology was a great experience, both instructive and mind-opening. All the students were shuttled to the remote and very small fishing village of Quintay, where ...