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Posted by the Node on December 30th, 2011
Many of you may have a few days off from work at the moment. If you want to catch up on what you missed on the Node this month, read on: BenchFly bingo game Benchfly, a site with free video protocols and other resources for researchers, has created “Group Meeting Bingo”. The site generates bingo[…]
Posted by Development Book Reviews on December 29th, 2011
This book review originally appeared in Development. Melissa Mann reviews “Epigenetics: Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution” (Edited by Benedikt Hallgrímsson and Brian K. Hall). Book info: Epigenetics: Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution Edited by Benedikt Hallgrímsson, Brian K. Hall University of California Press (2011) 472 pages ISBN 978-0520267091 (hardback),[…]
Posted by dorloff on December 26th, 2011
The Cell: An Image Library™ offers you a little fun this week. Please enjoy our quiz, Celestial or Cellular? Take a look at the images and see if you can tell whether they are of cellular or celestial origin. Take your best shot, and enter your answers at http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=26228. Visit again each day this week[…]
Posted by Hillel Kugler on December 23rd, 2011
Many tissues and organs contain self-renewing stem cell populations that are crucial for their maintenance. Synthesizing the relative effects of anatomical constraints, cell proliferation dynamics and cell fate specification on the overall stem cell population dynamics is challenging, and so we reasoned that dynamic computational models that have the potential to systematically manipulate different influences[…]
Posted by tkunath on December 23rd, 2011
The University of Tsukuba, Japan is offering fully-funded PhD studentships to do research in Japan. They have close ties with many international universities, including the University of Edinburgh. Joint projects between Edinburgh and Tsukuba will be available. The University of Tsukuba, located 1 hour from Tokyo, is one of the top universities in Japan, and[…]
Posted by Emma Kemp on December 22nd, 2011
It’s been a busy year for EuroStemCell: Europe’s stem cell hub – see www.eurostemcell.org for more information on who we are. We’d like to wish The Node community a happy festive season and a great start to 2012. But before we say goodbye to 2011, we thought you might be interested to know about some[…]
Posted by Development Book Reviews on December 22nd, 2011
This book review originally appeared in Development. Neil Singh and Ludovic Vallier review “Human Stem Cell Technology and Biology” (Edited by Gary S. Stein, Maria Borowski, Mai X. Luong, Meng-Jiao Shi, Kelly P. Smith and Priscilla Vasquez). Book info: Human Stem Cell Technology and Biology: A Research Guide and Laboratory Manual Edited by Gary S.[…]
Posted by Eva Amsen on December 20th, 2011
How do you make an eye? One early trigger for eye formation in Xenopus, as a new Development paper from Michael Levin’s lab shows, is a small change in bioelectric signals. In fact, that trigger alone is enough to induce eye development in other parts of the body. In an experiment that measured regions of[…]
Posted by Seema Grewal on December 20th, 2011
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Balanced ephrin/Eph signals drive topographic mapping During development of the retinotectal axonal projection, which connects the retina to the optic tectum in the midbrain, the axons of neighbouring retinal ganglion cells project to neighbouring positions in the optic tectum (topographical mapping). However, although retinal[…]
Posted by Maria Castello on December 17th, 2011
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