With self-deprecating humor, Sir John loved to tell the story of his Biology teacher (1949)

The 20th International Conference of Developmental Biology kicks off
Looking forward to five days of exciting developmental biology
#2025ICDB #2025SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social

Just concluded three exciting weeks at MBL @mblscience.bsky.social at Woods Hole for work of my team with that of Carrie Albertin's on heart development in cephalopods.
Beautifully located, MBL is a terrific place with an environment conducive to collaborative ground-breaking discovery.

... and discover a novel mechanism safeguarding a proper balance of the ventricular cardiomyocyte and epicardial lineages.

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The paper represents a huge amount of work and a public resource for analyses of multi-lineage cardiac organoids.
We uncover substantial plasticity of cardiac progenitors in various differentiation and maturation protocols, assess the gene-regulatory networks controlling lineage choice, ...
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All you ever wanted to know about mollusks 🐙🦑🐚🐌 and then some ...
1800 pages of wonderful biology 😍
Arrived yesterday