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LASDB Prize 2025 and LASDB New Investigator Award 2025
Posted by Latin American Society for Developmental Biology, on 14 February 2025
The Latin American Society for Developmental Biology (LASDB) calls for nominations for these two prizes for outstanding researchers in different stages of their careers. These award ceremony will take place …First issues – tick tock heat shock
Posted by Alex Eve, on 14 February 2025
As part of our ‘first issues’ series on the Node, Development’s in-house team are researching the authors of articles published in the first issues of Journal of Embryology and Experimental …First issues – Audrey across the Atlantic
Posted by Joyce Yu, on 13 February 2025
Continuing the ‘First issues’ series, in this post we’ll find out more about Audrey Muggleton-Harris, who published in Development’s first issue in 1987. Audrey Muggleton-Harris was born in London, England, …First issues – breaking newt
Posted by Laura Hankins, on 12 February 2025
As part of our ‘first issues’ series to mark The Company of Biologists’ 100th anniversary, Development’s in-house team are researching the authors of articles published in the first issues of …Development presents… call for self nominations
Posted by the Node, on 11 February 2025
Launched in 2020, Development presents… is a monthly Zoom webinar series covering the fields of developmental biology, stem cells and regeneration. Each webinar features three speakers who present short talks …First issues – culture most fowl
Posted by Katherine Brown, on 11 February 2025
This post is part of our ‘first issues’ series on the Node – looking at some of the papers, and the researchers behind them, that appeared in the first issues …Orphan nuclear receptors: individual and collective roles in mouse development
Posted by Nicola_Festuccia, on 10 February 2025
The elusive importance of NR5A2 and ESRRB as pluripotency factors Our paper entitled “Nr5a2 is dispensable for zygotic genome activation but essential for morula development” is the culmination of a …First issues – publishing developmental biology through the decades
Posted by Alex Eve, on 10 February 2025
In the latest issue of Development, you can read about the journal’s history since launching as Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology (JEEM) in 1953 (Eve, 2025). To complement the …Developing news — what are people talking about on Bluesky
Posted by the Node, on 6 February 2025
We’re only just over a month into 2025, and lots have happened already. In this ‘Developing news’ post, we’ve collated a few Bluesky posts about topics that have been on …Enter the Node-FocalPlane image competition, presented at Biologists @ 100!
Posted by the Node, on 5 February 2025
To accompany the Biologists @ 100 conference, we are launching the Node–FocalPlane image competition. Enter your best biological research images for your chance to win £250.Do you have something to share?
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Most-read posts in January
- Biological Research Trump Cards: from fruit flies to stem cells… who will come out on top? by Jo Sharpe
- Divide and conquer. Or don’t divide but still conquer. by Kalki Kukreja
- How being a scientist helped me to be a good mother by Felicity Davis
- Behind the paper: “Recording morphogen signals reveals origins of gastruloid symmetry breaking” by Harry McNamara
- What do we mean by ‘mechanism’ anyway? by Katherine Brown
- Lab meeting with the Das lab
Grants from The Company of Biologists
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