This month on the Node- March 2016
Posted by the Node, on 1 April 2016
Focus on organoids
Following Development’s call for papers for their upcoming Special Issue on Organoids, we featured an interview with their guest editor Melissa Little, discussing her career and research on kidney development and organoids. Our question of the month focused specifically on brain organoids and the ethical issues involved. You can share your thoughts by leaving a comment here!
Research
– Liangyu discussed how he adapted the auxin-inducible degradation system to C. elegans, providing a new tool for conditional protein depletion in the worm.
– Our latest forgotten classic was a 1967 paper by Tryggve Gustafsson and Lewis Wolpert, where the careful observation of sea urchin development is the starting point to discover the principles governing morphogenesis.
Also on the Node
– The life of a bat researcher is an exciting one, and includes trips to exotic locations. Find out more in ‘A day in the life of a bat lab‘!
– Ever wanted to influence the way science is portrayed in the movies? Pablo writes about his experience providing scientific advice to a film director.
– A scientific thriller- Katherine reviewed the book ‘Raw data‘, a novel on scientific misconduct.
– You had the chance to vote for you favourite movie from the 2014 Woods Hole Embryology Course, and this amazing video of a Drosophila embryo imaged in 7 channels was the big winner!
– And we remembered theoretical developmental biologist Hans Meinhardt, who recently passed away.
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