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RNAi in the Nucleus ~ It’s no longer limited to the cytoplasm

Posted by , on 18 January 2011

Hot off the press from the holidays is an article from PNAS that’s worth a gander if you’re into RNAi. We know RNAi associated with epigenetics is possible in the ...

Citing Data

Posted by , on 17 January 2011

I just got back from attending two meetings about academia and the internet – one in person and the second, in true internet style, virtually. Both meetings at one point ...

Postdoc positions in Jim Smith's lab

Posted by , on 16 January 2011

Two postdoctoral positions are available in Jim Smith’s lab at the National Institute for Medical Research in north London. One is is supported by the Leducq foundation, under a multidisciplinary ...

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN CELL and DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Posted by , on 13 January 2011

Post doctoral position available to study the neural crest gene regulatory network (NC-GRN) in Xenopus and zebrafish. Neural crest cells are stem cell-like progenitors that migrate extensively and are essential ...

PhD studentship: Analysis of progenitor cell differentiation programmes

Posted by , on 12 January 2011

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship investigating cell differentiation during development (closing date 14th January, 2011). Cell differentiation programmes are central to the production of specialised tissues during development. ...

Arrested Development in Plant miRNA Mutants

Posted by , on 11 January 2011

Animals and Plants have hundreds of miRNAs with diverse roles in gene regulation. In humans, each miRNA family can control up to several hundred genes (or 500 to be exact, ...

Royal Society Stem Cell Meeting talks online

Posted by , on 11 January 2011

The Royal Society has uploaded audio files of almost all the talks of their Discussion Meeting last October: “2010: What Next for Stem Cell Biology?”. Unfortunately there are no slides ...

Open access video protocol: electroporating zebrafish ears

Posted by , on 10 January 2011

Open-access video protocol for electroporating into zebrafish ears

modENCODE

Posted by , on 6 January 2011

The modENCODE project (model organism encyclopedia of DNA elements) is a collaborative effort to identify all sequence-based functional elements of Drosophila and C. elegans. The project has now produced almost ...

Intestinal stem cell regeneration

Posted by , on 5 January 2011

Cancer and stem cells are two very loaded biology concepts, and more frequently can be found in the same discussion.  Stem cells within tumors are able to divide and provide ...

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