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And how would you rate your current pain and fatigue? It’s a Tuesday.
Posted by Sharna Lunn, on 10 May 2024
When I was 25 and having a particularly bad day, crying to my mum about how exhausted and in pain I was during my studies, she recalled a passing comment …Join the SUMMER SCHOOL IN TRANSCRIPTOMICS in DEVELOPMENT and CANCER – Sweden, June 25-28, 2024
Posted by Claudio Cantù, on 10 May 2024
The School is designed for Master’s students, PhD students and Postdocs who work in the field studying the Transcriptional Control of the Genome during Embryonic Development, Cell Differentiation, and Disease, …SciArt profile: Philipp Dexheimer
Posted by the Node, on 9 May 2024
Meet Philipp Dexheimer, whose Molecular Graffiti and scientific illustrations are inspired by the concepts and molecular aesthetics of nature.Joint International GfE/DSDB Meeting – Meeting report
Posted by Uwe Töpfer, on 8 May 2024
What better place to hold a conference than a castle? Well, the 25th Conference of the German Society for Developmental Biology (GfE) was held in the historic castle of Osnabrück …April in preprints
Posted by the Node, on 6 May 2024
A list of developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints uploaded in April.Lab meeting with the Welshhans Lab
Posted by the Node, on 1 May 2024
Meet the Welshhans Lab at the University of South Carolina. The lab uses mouse models and hiPSC-derived neurons and brain organoids to study neural development.Development presents… winners of Development’s 2023 Outstanding Paper Prize
Posted by the Node, on 29 April 2024
Hear from the winners of Development’s 2023 Outstanding Paper Prize.The shrimp Parhyale hawaiensis – a non-model organism research story with Dr. Michalis Averof
Posted by Alexandra Bisia, on 28 April 2024
Earlier this year, my co-correspondent for the Node Brent Foster and I published a pot pourri-style interview article asking biology researchers about their work with non-model organisms (NMOs). As they …An interview with Marco Podobnik, GfE PhD award winner 2024
Posted by the Node, on 25 April 2024
An interview with the 2024 GfE PhD award recipient Marco Podobnik, who worked on pigment pattern diversification in Danio fish species at the Nüsslein-Volhard laboratory.Who was Rita Levi-Montalcini?
Posted by Alex Neaverson, on 22 April 2024
Rita-Levi Montalcini (1909-2012) was an Italian neurobiologist who lived an extraordinary life, and today (22nd April) would have been her 115th birthday. Click on each image to enlarge and read …The Node Network
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