@Dev_Cell And if you're interested in the details of detecting and quantifying phosho-SMAD protein expression, check out our methods paper, online today at @STARProtocols. Thanks again to my outstanding co-authors @toddfallesen.bsky.social and the @NiakanLab. https://t.co/fxqi9Za1Bz
Congratulations to our Editor-in-Chief @briscoejames on receiving the BSDB Waddington Medal. He has made a big impact on @Dev_journal since becoming EiC in 2018, including introducing Associate Editors, launching the Pathway to Independence programme & developing the Node Network
We are starting ✨2026✨ strong with our first Western 🌙 Session:
📅8th Jan
⏰ 17:30 GMT
With:
Jan Jakub Zylicz🐭👩🔬
👉Epi-metabolic regulation of early development
Anahi Binagui-Casas🐭👩🔬
👉Studying the lineage potential of in vitro derived neuromesodermal progenitors
@Dev_Cell And if you're interested in the details of detecting and quantifying phosho-SMAD protein expression, check out our methods paper, online today at @STARProtocols. Thanks again to my outstanding co-authors @toddfallesen.bsky.social and the @NiakanLab. https://t.co/fxqi9Za1Bz
@Dev_Cell A lay summary of this work is now available: https://t.co/VYPMOQTPaN
Thanks again to Kathy @NiakanLab and Richard Acton @BabrahamInst for their help and input.
The next extraordinary biologist is Anahí Binagui-Casas, an early-career researcher involved in the Biologists @ 100 conference and her research focusses on vertebrate development . #100biologists
Register for the conference at https://t.co/9mcGyFzNCp.
❗ANNOUNCEMENT❗
YEN 2025 Conference will be held at @TheCrick on the 19th May 2025.
We have an exciting line-up with Nicolas Rivron, Maud Borensztein and Peter Rugg-Gunn.
This year will see a return of the YEN Image Competition so follow for updates.
Share for #YEN2025!
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“When does human life begin?” teaching human embryology in the context of the American abortion debate
“There is no consensus among biologists as to when an independent human life begins”
by Scott Gilbert
https://t.co/pwlG0hHzDg
Congratulations to Prof. Kathy Niakan, @NiakanLab, on being awarded the Mary Lyon Medal🏅 for their pioneering research on the function of genes that regulate early human development and the molecular mechanisms that direct cell fate in human embryos.
https://t.co/hNBcLIjO74
Beyond thrilled to share my PhD work, published yesterday in @Dev_Cell. We show that both NODAL and BMP signalling are active in the human blastocyst, but NODAL signalling is not required to initiate or maintain the human pluripotent epiblast. 1/10
Online now: Initiation and maintenance of the pluripotent epiblast in pre-implantation human development is independent of NODAL signaling https://t.co/BLQEIceQDu
Finally, if you fancy a deep dive into our data, over 100GB of confocal microscopy data on human blastocysts are available at https://t.co/UqhkKL5EaO. 10/10