Embryonic transformations
What regulates cell fate determination in an embryo? How do cells collectively know when they should form the three embryonic germ layers – ectoderm, mesoderm… Read more »
What regulates cell fate determination in an embryo? How do cells collectively know when they should form the three embryonic germ layers – ectoderm, mesoderm… Read more »
Alejandro Sánchez-Alvarado’s dynamic enthusiasm comes through as he talks about his passion: regeneration. In an interview for Biome he reflects on his… Read more »
What do insects and geckos have in common? The answer, from the recent Royal Society conference on cell adhesion, is that their climbing mechanism depends on… Read more »
Writing in 1945 on the role of models in biology, Arturo Rosenblueth and Norbert Wiener (founders of cybernetics, arguably a precursor of today’s systems… Read more »
The BMC Biology iconic image (left) [1] was devised as a representation of the breadth of content of the journal, but its phylogenetic tree enclosed in a lipid… Read more »
Wallace Marshall has been intrigued by the question of what regulated cell size since his childhood, when a book showing electron microscope images of cells… Read more »
This was the opening question Lewis Wolpert posed at the Royal Society’s conference on Cell Polarity in London on April 15. If you think the answer is… Read more »
Edouard Van Beneden and Theodor Boveri first described the centrosome as “the organ for cell division” in the 1880s, so you might think it is an essential… Read more »
Some cells are huge, some are tiny, and we have remarkably little idea what decides how big a cell should be. Ten experts recruited by BMC Biology explore in a… Read more »
With the current data revolution, what are the tools we have to interpret the vast amounts of -omics data generated daily? Can we build a model to understand… Read more »