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Wellcome Trust 4-yr (1+3) PhD Programme in Stem Cell Biology & Medicine

Posted by , on 19 December 2013

Organisation: Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute Studentship starting: October 2014 Application Deadline: 10th January 2014 Interviews: 30th & 31st January 2014 Stem cells are defined by ...

Intestinal stem cells- from a foetal development perspective

Posted by , on 18 December 2013

My name is Rob Fordham and I’ve just finished my PhD at the Wellcome Trust/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, supervised by Dr Kim Jensen (now Associate Professor ...

Molecular Genetics in the age of information overload

Posted by , on 18 December 2013

Those of us who are of a certain age can remember standing overwhelmed at the video store, agonizing over which movie to rent. Of course today video stores in the ...

iPad App Explores Fetal Development

Posted by , on 18 December 2013

  The Science Picture Company has launched an iPad app that explores pregnancy from a new perspective, Life in the Womb. The app follows the embryological and fetal development through ...

Development editorial- Developing with the community

Posted by , on 17 December 2013

The following editorial, by Development’s Editor in Chief Olivier Pourquié, was first published in Development.    In recent years, there has been much discussion and some degree of discontent with the ...

In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 1)

Posted by , on 17 December 2013

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   GABAB inhibits neural stem cell proliferation Neurotransmitter functions are typically associated with neural function rather than with development, but ...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sampath Laboratory, University of Warwick, UK

Posted by , on 17 December 2013

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sampath Laboratory, University of Warwick, UK   A postdoctoral fellow position is available in the laboratory of Karuna Sampath in the Division of Biomedical Cell Biology at ...

(Developmental) Biology around the internet- December 2013

Posted by , on 16 December 2013

Here is our monthly round-up of some of the interesting content that we spotted around the internet:   News & Research: – Fred Sanger has sadly passed away. A fitting ...

A fruitful visit from INB to INA

Posted by , on 15 December 2013

My name is Daniel Ríos and I am a grad student at the ‘Instituto de Neurobiología (INB)’ from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. However, during this past October I was ...

PhD position. Molecular and functional analysis of cardiac diversification by cell specific genomic approaches

Posted by , on 12 December 2013

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with knowledge in genetic, developmental biology, biochemistry and molecular biology. Experience in genomic approaches (ChIP-seq, RNA-seq), immuno-purification, bioinformatics and confocal microscopy would ...

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