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Posted by cshperspectives on November 12th, 2010
Cold Spring Harbor has just published a new book on cell death by Doug Green, a larger-than-life character who will be familiar to anyone who’s ever been to an apoptosis conference. In this video, Doug talks about the apoptosis machinery and explains why cell death is critical during development. (No Ratings Yet) Loading…
Posted by Nishal Patel on November 11th, 2010
I’m Nish, a 3rd year PhD student in Kate Storey’s lab at the University of Dundee. Over the past year, I’ve been involved in running PiCLS, the PhD association here at the College of Life Sciences in Dundee. Unfortunate acronyms aside, it has the most interesting year of my PhD so far. I thought I’d[…]
Posted by Seema Grewal on November 9th, 2010
The current issue of Development is now online! Here are the research highlights: Klf5: a multifaceted regulator of cell fate Kruppel-like transcription factors (Klfs) induce and maintain pluripotency in embryonic stem cells (ESCs), and Klf4 is one of the factors used to create reprogrammed iPS cells. The role of Klfs in the specification of the[…]
Posted by Erin M Campbell on November 8th, 2010
I was lucky in graduate school and my postdoctoral research—I was a microscopist working on a transparent organism (C. elegans). Some microscopists don’t have that luxury, but have developed amazing techniques in order to visualize development in organisms such as mice. In the November 1 issue of Development, Yokomizo and Dzierzak use a technique that[…]
Posted by the Node on November 8th, 2010
Writing for the Node Have any of the entries on the Node inspired you to add something yourself? Go ahead! We’d like to remind you that you don’t need to ask permission to write for the Node. You also don’t need to wait for us to ask you to write something – although we might.[…]
Posted by Eva Amsen on November 3rd, 2010
The annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience kicks off in San Diego at the end of next week, and there are a lot of interesting updates even for people who, like me, are sadly *not* attending. First of all, if you’re planning to go but haven’t yet registered, you can register on site, but[…]
Posted by Heather on November 2nd, 2010
Who wants to reinvent the wheel? Resources for finding or judging the worth of PCR primers, particularly for quantitation or amplification of cDNA.
Posted by Eva Amsen on October 29th, 2010
(This interview previously appeared in Development) This August, the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) held their annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, jointly with the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists (JSDB). The JSDB has recently increased their international profile under the presidency of Dr Shinichi Aizawa from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB).[…]
Posted by kyook on October 29th, 2010
WormBase — wormbase.org — is the central data repository for Caenorhabditis elegans and related nematodes. C. elegans is a well-known system for studying problems in developmental biology, the benefits of which I will quickly rehash here. Its rapid generation time from fertilized egg to gravid adult (3.5 days) and small size (1mM) permit 1000’s of[…]
Posted by hilary ashe on October 28th, 2010
Hilary Ashe’s research group Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester I seek a motivated candidate to work on a project applying sophisticated cell biological, genetic, biochemical and genomics approaches to study the regulation of the Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) signalling-responsive transcription network. This work will expand upon recent exciting discoveries revealing different tiers of[…]
