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The Node at 15 – Then and now with Joachim Goedhart

The Node is 15 years old this year! We thought it’d be fun to get in touch with prolific authors of the Node over the past 15 years, revisit the ...

Between Molecules and Milestones: Tales from Seattle to Heidelberg for grad school

We pick up where we left off with Anna-Lena Vigil, now a PhD candidate in the Crocker Group at EMBL, as her journey unfolds to moments beyond the bench that ...

Could you be the Node’s next Community Manager?

The Company of Biologists is recruiting a new Community Manager for the Node - a community site hosted by Development for developmental and stem cell biologists.

Development presents… gene regulation

Talks from two researchers working on gene regulation.

Development presents… gene regulation

Posted by the Node, on 13 August 2025

Talks from two researchers working on gene regulation.

Save the date: joint meeting of Development and the Human Developmental Biology Initiative

Posted by the Node, on 13 August 2025

Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos Development has been organising regular meetings on human development for over a decade. For 2026, the journal has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium …

July in preprints

Posted by the Node, on 12 August 2025

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv.

Could you be the Node’s next Community Manager?

Posted by Alex Eve, on 12 August 2025

The Company of Biologists is recruiting a new Community Manager for the Node – a community site hosted by Development for developmental and stem cell biologists.

Link between autism and heart defects offers hope for early autism diagnosis

Posted by Joyce Yu, on 6 August 2025

Press release from Development on the Research Report Ciliary biology intersects autism and congenital heart disease Summary: It is difficult to predict whether newborns will develop autism, but autism can …

ISSCR PSC-Derived Therapies Symposium: Explore Cell Therapy Development, Starting with the Patient in Mind

Posted by Hunter Reed, on 5 August 2025

Join stem cell, gene, and regenerative medicine researchers, manufacturers, and patient representatives in Boston, USA on 11-12 December 2025 for a program focused on developing the next generation of technologies …

FlyCROSS 2025–26: Call for Drosophila early career scientists

Posted by Shefali Shefali, on 1 August 2025

Do not miss this call for mentees from the Drosophila community. The Fly Board is excited to announce the second cycle of FlyCROSS (2025–2026). The goal of FlyCROSS is to …

The Node Time Machine – July 2013

Posted by Joyce Yu, on 31 July 2025

At the end of each month, I pick the same month from a random year from the past 15 years of the Node, and take a look at what people …

Development presents… stem cells and organoids

Posted by the Node, on 30 July 2025

Talks from three researchers working on stem cells and organoids.

InSDB-ISD Joint Meeting 2025

Posted by Indian Society of Developmental Biologists ., on 28 July 2025

The Indian Society of Developmental Biologists (InSDB) is hosting our 2025 meeting from December 14–17 at IISER Berhampur. This year will be a joint meeting with the International Society for …

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