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Register to attend “SciCommConnect: Science communication, community connections”
Posted by the Node, on 16 April 2024
Want to work on your science communication skills and connect with fellow biologists around the world? Register to attend our free online event happening on Mon 10 June!Embryos in hungry mouse mums postpone development
Posted by Laura Hankins, on 15 April 2024
A press release from Development It’s challenging to sustain a pregnancy when food is short, or conditions are otherwise tough. That’s why many mammalian embryos can postpone their growth to …Transitions in development
Posted by the Node, on 12 April 2024
Development has just published their 30th interview in the ‘Transitions in development’ series, featuring PIs within the first five years or so of establishing their own lab.Lab meeting with the Charrier lab
Posted by the Node, on 11 April 2024
Meeting the lab of Bénédicte Charrier, based at the Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon (IGFL). The lab studies the morphogenesis of brown algae.SciArt profile: Maja Mielke
Posted by the Node, on 10 April 2024
In this SciArt profile, we meet Maja Mielke, who is doing a PhD in functional morphology and enjoys making nature-inspired drawings.Royal Society Meeting on Cell Lineages
Posted by Claudio Cortes, on 9 April 2024
Birmingham, UK, May 7-8, 2024 Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre Do you study Development? Complex cellular systems? Cancer? Then we’d love to have you at our Meeting “Cell Lineages …March in preprints
Posted by the Node, on 8 April 2024
Here’s our monthly trawl for preprints in developmental and stem cell biology (related fields).Lab meeting with the Tsakiridis Lab
Posted by the Node, on 4 April 2024
Meet the lab of Anestis Tsakiridis, based in Sheffield, UK. The lab is interested in understanding how human developmental cell fate decisions are controlled.An interview with the 2024 GfE Hilde Mangold Award winner — Daniel Wehner
Posted by the Node, on 2 April 2024
Daniel Wehner is group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin in Erlangen.The homeobox – 40 years of discovery
Posted by the Node, on 2 April 2024
An Editorial in Development, introducing the collection of articles showcasing the impact of the discovery of the homeobox.The Node Network
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Most-read posts in March
- Can the post-doc shortage get even worse? by J Guillermo Sanchez
- Lab meeting with the Mohlin lab
- SciArt profile: Brent Foster
- Lab meeting with the Soiza-Reilly lab
- Exploring multi-hub conferences: interview with Sally Lowell by Teodora Andreea Rinciog
- An afternoon in the museum with an exploded skull and a 3.5m python skeleton by Joyce Yu
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