Science news articles about 'developmental biologist'

... as it points to a likely target for pesticide development, says Dr. Ellen LeMosy, developmental biologist in the Medical College of Georgia Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies. Her research ...

... new data—published online the week of July 28 in PNAS—open unexplored frontiers to developmental biologists, cancer researchers, and others who study cell growth and proliferation. "There's a massive ...

... elegans worms have long been a favorite model organism among developmental biologists, in part because of their small size (1 mm long), simple nervous system, and ease ...

... fellow Qiao "Joe" Zhou report having achieved what has long been a dream and ultimate goal of developmental biologists – directly turning one type of fully formed adult cell into another type of adult ...

... in a patient. Manley got into studying the Foxn1 gene through her work as a developmental biologist, but the discovery of how the gene works in maintaining the postnatal thymus came as a surprise. ...

... take a closer look at cilia in the South African clawed frog Xenopus, a model popular with developmental biologists, and zebrafish. In mice, FoxJ1 is needed to drive the formation of motile but not ...

... of microsporidia, which infects C. elegans, the round worm used as a model system by developmental biologists. The work, undertaken by a team of French and American scientists led by Professor ...

... gene regulatory network in Caenorhabditis elegans, a soil-dwelling worm commonly studied by developmental biologists. The gene regulatory network studied by Sternberg and his colleagues controls the ...

... , which is important in development, stem cell maintenance and stem cell activation. Stanford developmental biologist and professor Roeland Nusse, PhD, a collaborator on the current study, identified ...

... make individual bones first, and then how you fit those bones together as a refinement of that," said developmental biologist Charles Kimmel, who was the first author on the paper. When they mapped ...

... may explain how cells in other developing systems acquire positional information," Nahmad says. "As developmental biologists, we want to understand how the body plan is specified, and how different ...

... , and that it was rendered inactive in old tissue. MAP kinase (MAPK) is familiar to developmental biologists since it is an important enzyme for organ formation in such diverse species as nematodes, ...

... of such exquisite dinosaur-age mammals from China provide developmental biologists and paleontologists with evidence of how developmental mechanisms have impacted the morphological (body-structure) ...

... system, it can create tumors by causing cells to divide when they shouldn't," says Ian Chin-Sang, a developmental biologist at Queen's and lead researcher on the study. "Certain genes ...