Marta Shahbazi Alonso (left), a rising star in embryology, and Tamara Gonzalez Costa, who studied heart development, were killed in one of the worst train disasters in Europe in recent times.Credit: MRC LMB/Michael Thornton (L), IMBA Graphics Dept./Hannes Tkadletz (R) Marta Shahbazi Alonso, a 41-year-old stem-cell and developmental biologist at the prestigious MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK, and Tamara Gonzalez Costa, a 31-year-old postdoc at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) in Vienna, died in a high-speed train collision near the town of Urda in central Spain. The crash, which killed 69 people and injured more than 100 others, is one of the worst rail disasters in Europe's modern history. The scientists, who were both originally from Spain, were heading to the 19th meeting of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD) in El Rompido. Shahbazi Alonso, a celebrated embryologist, was travelling to the conference to receive an award...
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