Anniversary in developmental #totipotency: it was seven years ago today when Casser and colleagues demonstrated for the first time in mammals that the sister #blastomeres of the 2-cell #embryo produce different amounts of #epiblast cells, in mice. nature.com/articles/s4159…

P-hacking was one of the many pervasive issues in academia that bothered me frequently enough to appear in many of my cartoons. Industry is far from perfect but p-hacking is something I have not thought or worried about in the last 2.5 years. Significant (p<0.05) improvement.

Attention!! Fertility 2025 Bursary is Now Open! The SRF Council is excited to continue supporting the conference and strongly encourages all members to attend by applying for the SRF Fertility Bursary. 👏 Don't miss this opportunity to secure your place at Fertility 2025!

Interested in starting your lab in France ? Why not in Lyon, SBRI INSERM ? The ATIP/Avenir program is open for 2025, if interested please contact us !

Super-proud of my student at SBIR2024! ❤️ Great job from the organizers Laboratory of Reproductive Biology and Filipp Lab! Great talk Holubcova_lab 🤩

#Job alert! A #postdoc position in my lab CECAD Cologne Universität zu Köln is open until December 1st. We look for: enthusiasm, curiosity, scientific rigour, and a background in protein quality control, lysosome signalling, or the cell cycle. We offer: fully funded position, top European

We have found that the absence of CDK12 in oocytes leads to complete female sterility, as there are no fully developed oocytes able to accomplish meiosis I in the ovaries.

🚨Thrilled to welcome Dr. Anne Grapin-Botton as a speaker for the 4th V4SDB Meeting in 2025! A leading developmental biologist at MPI-CBG, Dr. @anne_grapin uses 2D & 3D organoid models to reveal how pancreatic cells differentiate and self-organize.🧬🧫 Registration opens March 1!

Oocytes are arrested in prophase to give them enough time to grow and accumulate sufficient maternal components.🥚 Our Nature Communications study led by Shiya Cheng reveals two mechanisms repressing cyclin B1 translation to maintain this arrest. bit.ly/4fVHgMz (1/6)

The first paper of the year! Fertilization and early embryogenesis: from research to clinical practice - check out this editorial by our PI Komrskova Katerina 👇 frontiersin.org/journals/cell-… Institute of Biotechnology BIOCEV_SCIENCE

The history of human in vitro fertilization at #Fertility2025 ❤️ Happy to share our work on DNA damage reversal in AMA oocytes on Saturday 🥚🍳

Oh dear, I hope we will not need to evacuate! Nor sure how to use this emergency exit 🤔

Today on the programme, discussion on the future of assisted #reproduction at #Fertility2025: artificial #gametes and artificial #embryo models. Nice to hear such a progressive opinion, while taking into account the safety.

More than 40 percent of #postdocs leave academia. Those who landed a coveted faculty position were more likely to have had a highly cited paper, changed their research topic between their #PhD and postdoc, or moved abroad after receiving their doctorate. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Thrilled to share our paper Cell Reports where we established bovine XENs and a new blastiod protocol- Another milestone in bovine stem cells! Establishment of bovine extraembryonic endoderm stem cells enables efficient blastoid formation: Cell Reports cell.com/cell-reports/f…

One sometimes needs a second look and different approaches to realize that not all was as it first seemed. It appears that the quintessential characteristic structure of #oocytes, the zona pellucida, has not only extracellular functions but also intracellular functions, which

Check out our new paper on protamines and their effect on sperm shape 🐀. A wonderful collaboration with Teramo! ❤️ cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Ever wondered why #oocytes have a super-low #mutation rate? 🤔 What could be the protective mechanism behind and how oocytes deal with #DNA damage? Check out our new paper in Nucleic Acids Research! 👇 academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

John Gurdon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gurd…, beacon of a generation that tackled head on the deepest question of biology: the development of an organism. The best tribute to him and his peers should be to remember and follow the path they forged for how to do Science in form and content.