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Sustainable travel incentives and prize at Biologists @100
Posted by Teodora Andreea Rinciog, on 19 February 2025
We are delighted to announce sustainable travel incentives for those travelling to our Biologists @ 100 conference. Sustainable rail incentives up to £150 will be available for international train journeys …The Arterial Maze: Unveiling the Origin of Pial Collaterals in Mouse Brain
Posted by Swarnadip Ghosh, on 19 February 2025
Written by Swarnadip Ghosh & Soumyashree Das Behind the Paper Story of “Development of pial collaterals by extension of pre-existing artery tips” What we do and how we do it? …SciArt profile: B. Duygu Özpolat
Posted by the Node, on 18 February 2025
In this SciArt profile, we find out more about B. Duygu Özpolat, an assistant professor whose research focuses on germ cell regeneration in segmented worms. Duygu enjoys creating pottery pieces …Biology Letters Early Career Researcher competition
Posted by felicity davie, on 18 February 2025
In 2022, Biology Letters launched the Early Career Researcher Competition to highlight the best research papers published in the journal by early career researchers (ECRs). We are delighted to announce that the …Seeking a new Executive Editor for Development
Posted by Katherine Brown, on 17 February 2025
Back in the summer of 2011, I was just finishing up work for the day. Sitting in my office at EMBO in Heidelberg, Germany, I happened to open up the …LASDB Prize 2025 and LASDB New Investigator Award 2025
Posted by Latin American Society for Developmental Biology, on 14 February 2025
The Latin American Society for Developmental Biology (LASDB) calls for nominations for these two prizes for outstanding researchers in different stages of their careers. These award ceremony will take place …First issues – tick tock heat shock
Posted by Alex Eve, on 14 February 2025
As part of our ‘first issues’ series on the Node, Development’s in-house team are researching the authors of articles published in the first issues of Journal of Embryology and Experimental …First issues – Audrey across the Atlantic
Posted by Joyce Yu, on 13 February 2025
Continuing the ‘First issues’ series, in this post we’ll find out more about Audrey Muggleton-Harris, who published in Development’s first issue in 1987. Audrey Muggleton-Harris was born in London, England, …First issues – breaking newt
Posted by Laura Hankins, on 12 February 2025
As part of our ‘first issues’ series to mark The Company of Biologists’ 100th anniversary, Development’s in-house team are researching the authors of articles published in the first issues of …Development presents… call for self nominations
Posted by the Node, on 11 February 2025
Launched in 2020, Development presents… is a monthly Zoom webinar series covering the fields of developmental biology, stem cells and regeneration. Each webinar features three speakers who present short talks …The Node Network
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Most-read posts in January
- Biological Research Trump Cards: from fruit flies to stem cells… who will come out on top? by Jo Sharpe
- Divide and conquer. Or don’t divide but still conquer. by Kalki Kukreja
- How being a scientist helped me to be a good mother by Felicity Davis
- Behind the paper: “Recording morphogen signals reveals origins of gastruloid symmetry breaking” by Harry McNamara
- What do we mean by ‘mechanism’ anyway? by Katherine Brown
- Lab meeting with the Das lab
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