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Sci-Art: Harnessing the power of creativity to promote more inclusive learning opportunities
Posted by Katharine Hubert, on 24 July 2024
Read the behind the scenes of creating the SciArt exhibit “Genetic Symphonies: building Hox of life”.New genome reveals ancient toolkit
Posted by Brent Foster, on 23 July 2024
Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus is an emerging model to understand stem cell evolution Stem cells can’t hide what they are. At least, that’s the takeaway from the newly sequenced genomes of two …Development presents… August webinar on neurodevelopment and disorders
Posted by the Node, on 23 July 2024
Hear from three early-career researchers studying neurodevelopment and disorders. Chaired by Debby Silver.SciArt Profile: Friedrich Bliem
Posted by the Node, on 17 July 2024
In this SciArt profile, we meet Friedrich Bliem, who has a background in cell biology and scientific illustration and has been creating “Art in Science” paintings for decades.Development presents… July webinar on plant development
Posted by the Node, on 16 July 2024
Hear from three early-career researchers studying plant development. Chaired by Dominique Bergmann.June in preprints
Posted by the Node, on 10 July 2024
Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv – use these links below to …Improving laboratory animal genetic reporting
Posted by Debora Bogani, on 9 July 2024
The LAG-R framework (Laboratory Animal Genetic Reporting) has just been published in Nature Communications with Lydia Teboul, head of our Molecular Cell Biology team at the Mary Lyon Centre at …Ready, steady, cooooooonga~
Posted by Joaquin Navajas Acedo, on 8 July 2024
What is this? The video depicts the formation of the so-called lateral line in a transgenic zebrafish that I took when I was a student in Tatjana Piotrowski’s lab at …Behind the paper story: From a tiny primordium to a fully developed gynoecium
Posted by Andrea Gomez, on 5 July 2024
In this post, I invite you to join me on the journey through our recent article titled “Two Orthogonal Differentiation Gradients Locally Coordinate Fruit Morphogenesis.” This story started when I …AdamTS matrix metalloproteases mediate basement membrane heterogeneity required for organ elongation
Posted by Uwe Töpfer, on 4 July 2024
Basement membranes (BMs) are thin, specialized extracellular matrices that surround most tissues and organs (Jayadev and Sherwood, 2017). These meshworks serve as scaffolds for cell adhesion, influencing cell signaling, cell …The Node Network
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Most-read posts in June
- First Sy(Stem)s Developmental Biology Lab Picture by Elena Camacho Aguilar
- Ancient origin of the vertebrate sympathetic nervous system by Brittany Edens
- SciArt profile: Gabriela Krejčová
- Ascidian embryonic cells offer clues to the evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest cells and neuromesodermal progenitors by Tasuku Ishida
- Lab meeting with the Ríos-Barrera lab
- How we found a switch from genitalia to limbs by Anastasiia Lozovska
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