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Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 8 March 2012
The progress of stem cell research depends on the ability to grow stem cells in culture. Embryonic stem (ES) cells from some organisms, such as humans, have proven difficult to ...Posted by Nishal Patel, on 8 March 2012
The Grammy Awards are held every year to celebrate the best of the music industry, however, they seem to miss one crucial catergory – the Science Parody. The Biotechnique’s website ...Posted by stemcellsjobs, on 7 March 2012
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research provides outstanding scientists with the opportunity and resources to undertake ground-breaking research into the fundamental properties of mammalian stem cells. Postdoctoral Research ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 7 March 2012
(This interview originally appeared in Development.) Angela Nieto is Full Professor at the Instituto de Neurociencias (CSIC-UMH) in Alicante, Spain, and Head of the institute’s Developmental Neurobiology Unit. She is ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 6 March 2012
Here are the research highlights from the current issue of Development: miR-125 seals hESC neural fate MicroRNAs, small non-coding RNAs, have recently emerged as key regulators of embryonic development. In ...Posted by Nishal Patel, on 5 March 2012
I recently saw a documentary about graduate students called Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist (available to watch here). It’s hour long movie follows several PhD students from Lawrence ...Posted by Thomas Butts, on 1 March 2012
The Metazoa, our corner of the great assemblage of life, is a curious and fascinating topic, but one that is relatively obscure in these days when a great many of ...Posted by Thomas Butts, on 1 March 2012
Progress in understanding how cells interpret their genome has gathered significant momentum in recent years. Of course, the (now historical) catalyst to this was the entry into the genomic age, ...Posted by Khalil A. Cassimally, on 1 March 2012
Book Info: Developmental Biology: A Very Short Introduction by Lewis Wolpert. Aug 2011. 152 pages. ISBN: 9780199601196 (Paperback) Price: $11.95 /£7.99 The very first sentence Lewis Wolpert writes in Developmental ...Posted by Marsha Lucas, on 1 March 2012
The Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) has partnered with Wiley-Blackwell to publish a new web-based encyclopedic resource for developmental biologists—WIREs Developmental Biology. This collection of invited peer-reviewed review articles encompasses ...