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March of Dimes Prize Announced

Posted by , on 4 May 2011

The March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology was jointly awarded this April to David Page, Director of the Whitehead Institute, and Patricia Ann Jacobs, professor of human genetics at ...

Second cover image winner: mouse pharyngeal arch

Posted by , on 4 May 2011

Congratulations to Hozana Andrade Castillo of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, whose image of a mouse pharyngeal arch jumped from third place to first place in the last ...

An After Thought to Evolution: Exceptional ways of Controlling Gene “Expression”

Posted by , on 3 May 2011

More and more, the central dogma is becoming well, dogged, for being a dogma at all. As humans, we have 3 billion nucleotides. Only 1% of it makes up our ...

Science – The Bigger Picture

Posted by , on 1 May 2011

This is a retelling of the student and post-doc workshop from the second day of the BSDB/BSCB joint spring meeting that took place in Canterbury at the University of Kent. ...

Rethinking X-chromosome Inactivation

Posted by , on 30 April 2011

I’ve been asked to present the back-story behind our recently published manuscript in Development “Transcription precedes loss of Xist coating and depletion of H3K27me3 during X-chromosome reprogramming in the mouse ...

Stem cell patent case could have far-reaching impact

Posted by , on 28 April 2011

Last month, the advocate-general of the European Court of Justice gave his opinion on a long-running legal debate about a patent filed several years ago in Germany. If the Court follows his ...

Got the Blues? How Plants Respond to Blue Light

Posted by , on 28 April 2011

Physiologically speaking of course.... As humans we can see a limited assortment of light wavelengths, known as the visible spectrum of light, a.k.a. colours. (Other wavelengths we cannot see include UV ...

Location change for BSDB Node meet-up

Posted by , on 28 April 2011

We’ve had to find a new location for Thursday’s (today’s) Node meetup at the BSDB meeting. Find us Thursday April 28 at 8PM in the Gulbenkian Cinema Cafe/Bar. This is ...

Postdoctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania

Posted by , on 27 April 2011

Two postdoctoral positions are available immediately at the University of Pennsylvania: (1) to analyze the gene regulatory network underlying neural crest formation (Hong & Saint-Jeannet, 2007. Mol Biol Cell 18, ...

Mapping the cardiac neural crest in the frog’s heart

Posted by , on 27 April 2011

The Node’s staff asked me to write a short “behind the scenes” on our paper just released in the May 15 issue of Development, “Cardiac neural crest is dispensable for ...

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