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Cytonemes were first discovered over 20 years ago in the lab of Thomas Kornberg, UCSF. The discover, Felipe-Andres Ramirez-Weber, was a hard working postdoc. cell.com/cell/fulltext/… This was a landmark paper. It described specialized structures, which Ramirez-Weber and Kornberg

🤩 Please check it out! The first author- MJ 🌻- did an awesome job of characterizing the effects of NSAID exposure on axolotl development. She identified that naproxen exposure caused craniofacial anomalies and abnormal formation of sensory cells and the CNS.

🚨 Just out in Nature Communications: Cholangiocytes contribute to hepatocyte regeneration after partial #liver #injury during growth in #zebrafish We challenge old assumptions on liver regeneration! 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4146… 🧵(1/8)

I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/wor…

Proud to be a signatory on a letter in support of the courageous staff at the NIH who penned the Bethesda Declaration to decry the ongoing politicization and damage to the US biomedical research infrastructure which has been the envy of the world. apnews.com/article/nih-le…

📢 Call for papers: Submit to the "Splicing in Development and Disease" special issue! Submission deadline: October 1, 2025 Guest editor: Natoya Peart (Natoya J Peart PhD.), University of Waterloo, Canada Learn more and submit: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…

Notice of NIMH Withdrawal from Participation in PA-25-080, "NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (Parent R13 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/n…

The American Heart Association just published their alcohol recommendations today which line up with the report by the National Academies. Moderate EtOH intake, up to 7 drinks per week (1/day), is without risk (and may be beneficial for cardiovascular outcomes) American Heart Association

Join leading scientists at #InSDBISDjointmeeting, Dec 15–17 at IISER Berhampur, India. Register by June 30 to save with early bird rates. Looking to present your research? Submit your abstract after you register. bit.ly/4dqXZXS #callforabstracts #developmentalbiology

Today is international pigeon day! It is celebrated on the 13th of June each year, marking the date of death of the pigeon war hero Cher Ami. He was a WW1 messenger pigeon who saved the lives of 194 soldiers in the lost battalion despite having been shot on his way to send the ->

Excited to welcome Prof Sally Dunwoodie as an invited speaker for InSDB-ISD 2025! Sally's work focuses on identifying the genetic and environmental causes of congenital defects. She is also the president of International Society of Differentiation Register now: insdb.in/events/insdb-i… #InSDB25 #InSDBISD25

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Join the editors-in-chief of Differentiation on July 11 at 1:30 p.m. Central for a virtual seminar with Julie Siegenthaler on retinoic acid signaling in retina endothelial cells and early angiogenesis. 👁️🔬💉 Register for free: isdifferentiation.org/Events/Seminar… Rosa Uribe, PhD 𝘿𝙧. 𝘾𝙧𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙍𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨 ≽(◕ ᴗ ◕)≼ 🐥🐸

Huge thanks to our amazing speakers for sharing their journeys, insights, and advice at ou Latinx DevBio panel! 🤝🌎 The Company of Biologists Stowers Institute

Reactivation of mammalian regeneration by turning on an evolutionarily disabled genetic switch | ⁦Science Magazine⁩>> **supplementation of retinoic acid or activation of a rate-limiting enzyme in retinoic acid synthesis >>activate regeneration.** science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Multichannel fluorescent in situ hybridization in chick embryos, by Jenny Hsin et al., reveals dynamic expression of PouV, Nanog, Klf4, and Lin28A during neural crest, somite, and CNS development. Read the “All Things Neural Crest” special issue article: doi.org/10.1016/j.diff…

Before becoming an academic, I didn't anticipate the periods where rejections/disappointments would clump together and periods where acceptances/successes would clump together. These wide swings from wins to losses can be jarring. I think it helps to acknowledge that this

My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15

A new study by A. Vincent et al. expands our knowledge of myogenic cell surface markers and underscores the complexity and heterogeneity of muscle satellite cells. Read the open access article to learn more: doi.org/10.1016/j.diff…

#Birds South Africa is desperate to save their National Bird from extinction. Blue crane numbers are plummeting—a 44% decline in just 14 years. Power line collisions, poisoned by farmers & their grasslands taken for intensive agriculture, it will be a hard fight to save them.