Developmental Biology

Developmental Biology

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    1. Developmental Biology

    Morphogenesis: Regulating closure of the neural tube in humans

    Leon Qarawani, Jacob H Hanna
    An organoid-based screening platform that allows one-gene-at-a-time knockdown across a whole tissue has been used to identify the genes that regulate closure of the neural tube in humans.
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Removal of developmentally regulated microexons has a minimal impact on larval zebrafish brain morphology and function

    Caleb CS Calhoun, Mary ES Capps ... Summer B Thyme
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Extracellular adenosine deamination primes tip organizer development in Dictyostelium

    Pavani Hathi, Baskar Ramamurthy
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    The oocyte zinc transporter Slc39a10/Zip10 is a regulator of zinc sparks during fertilization in mice

    Atsuko Kageyama, Narumi Ogonuki ... Junya Ito
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Gene regulatory mechanisms guiding bifurcation of inhibitory and excitatory neuron lineages in the mouse anterior brainstem

    Sami Kilpinen, Lassi Virtanen ... Juha Partanen
    Changes of the chromatin structure suggests how the fate selector transcription factors are activated and how they guide differentiation of GABAergic and glutamatergic neurons in the anterior brainstem.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Spatial and longitudinal tracking of enhancer-AAV vectors that target transgene expression to injured mouse myocardium

    David W Wolfson, Joshua A Hull ... Kenneth D Poss
    Bioluminescence imaging in live mice was used to assess the abilities of systemically introduced adeno-associated viral capsids containing enhancer regulatory sequences to target transgene expression to myocardial injuries.
    1. Developmental Biology

    A cell atlas of the developing human outflow tract of the heart and its adult derivatives

    Rotem Leshem, Syed Murtuza Baker ... Nicoletta Bobola
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
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    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Dissecting infant leukemia developmental origins with a hemogenic gastruloid model

    Denise Ragusa, Chun Wai Suen ... Cristina Pina
    The hemogenic gastruloid model of embryonic blood development captures multi-wave haematopoiesis and enables interrogation of infant leukaemia cell-of-origin.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    A genome-wide MAGIC kit for recombinase-independent mosaic analysis in Drosophila

    Yifan Shen, Ann T Yeung ... Chun Han
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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