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Join the Allen Institute and Circuit Neuroscience Basel for the Lake Conference in Seattle, Washington this October. Comparative and Evolutionary...

The Echinox Laboratory uses several echinoderm species as natural experiments on body plans to investigate the developmental mechanisms of animal evolution

Via genetic ablation of neurons, Mazloumi Gavgani et al. show that the nervous system is essential for defining axial polarity during whole-body regeneration in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis.

The hindbrain is a life-sustaining brain region. In one model, a common neural progenitor generates all brain regions. Here our studies of mouse embryos and human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) suppor...

Although the adult pentaradial body plan of echinoderms evolved from a bilateral ancestor, identifying axial homologies between the morphologically divergent echinoderms and their bilaterian relatives...

The evolution of vision is a major novelty in animals, playing a fundamental role in developing complex behaviours. Vision initiates with a light-triggered phototransduction cascade occurring in photo...

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

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