Posted by benoitbruneau, on 30 June 2010
Ahhh the Node, my favourite part of the embryo: nice cup shape you can lie back in and get a whirly cilia massage…. OK, on with the post. So it ...Posted by Jonathan Slack, on 29 June 2010
This is a question that I keep asking myself. I am starting work on the third edition of my textbook “Essential Developmental Biology”. Over the years the quantity of published ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 29 June 2010
Have you ever met a Nobel Laureate? 650 lucky young researchers are currently spending the week with 59 previous Nobel Prize winners from the fields of physiology or medicine, physics ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 28 June 2010
Biomedical researchers in the UK are seeing some changes in the way their research is funded. The Wellcome Trust, the UK’s largest charity funding agency for biomedical research, is phasing ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 25 June 2010
Coinciding with the launch of the Node, Development Editor-in-chief Olivier Pourquié, Executive editor Jane Alfred, and the Node’s Community Manager Eva Amsen (that’s me!) wrote an editorial for the current ...Posted by Ben Steventon, on 23 June 2010
May 10th 2010 marked the second anniversary of a very young but promising scientific meeting, the Young Embryologist Meeting (YEM). This meeting was organised by a group of PhD students ...Posted by Jane Alfred, on 23 June 2010
If you are a plant developmental biologist studying the Selaginella spikemosses, you might be interested in this beautiful animation that shows the life cycle of the Selaginella, Selaginella apoda Life ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 23 June 2010
Here are the research highlights from the current issue of Development. You can find these on the Development site but we thought it would be useful to have them posted ...Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 21 June 2010
As announced in my last post, here is part two of the BSDB-BSCB Spring Meeting Report. It deals with two presentations on networks of transcription factors (TFs). During development, such ...Posted by Shelley Edmunds, on 18 June 2010
I am employed as a graduate teaching assistant for a first year biomedical sciences course at Auckland University in New Zealand. The class is called Cellular and Developmental Biology and ...