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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Eva Amsen, on 13 April 2011
NOTE: LOCATION CHANGE! We’ll meet at the Gulbenkian Cinema Cafe/Bar at 8PM on Thursday, as Mungos is closed. This is the cafe that you walk past along the footpath from ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 12 April 2011
If there is hope to fully understand stem cells, then the environment surrounding those stem cells must be understood too. A recent Development paper describes important results on niche establishment ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 12 April 2011
Here are the research highlights from the current issue of Development: Cranial neural crest development: p53 faces up The tumour suppressor p53 plays multiple roles in the prevention of cancer ...Posted by Khalil A. Cassimally, on 12 April 2011
Last week, news that the Australian government was planning to slash the budget for medical research by more than half over the next three years leaked out and rocked the ...Posted by Sivani, on 8 April 2011
The recipients of Canada’s most prestigious science awards, the Gairdner Awards, was recently announced. The Awards recognize researchers for their contributions to the field of medical research. The 2011 Gairdner ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 7 April 2011
You’ve seen the news: ES cells generate a 3D retinal structure. But what does this tell us about eye development? In the developing embryo, the first step toward a functional ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 5 April 2011
We’re trying to gauge interest for an informal gathering of Node readers (in the form of drinks after dinner) at the upcoming BSDB meeting. We have a lot of readers ...Posted by the Node, on 4 April 2011
Congratulations to Stéphane Vincent of the IGBMC in Illkirch, France, who won the Node’s intersection image competition: His image showing staining of a gut section of a E17.5 mouse embryo ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 31 March 2011
Every two years, the German society for developmental biology (Gesellschaft für Entwicklungsbiologie – GfE) hands out an award for the best PhD thesis of the previous two years. At their ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 29 March 2011
The Royal Society has collected a series of images that illustrate the moment important scientific discoveries were made. This “Moments of Seeing Further” collection includes a notebook sketch from 1980, ...