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Advantages of exposure

Posted by , on 11 December 2013

I was fortunate go get funding and support to travel to California during my graduate student period. While some similarities between the Norwegian and Californian west coasts made me feel ...

Mechanisms for asymmetric heart morphogenesis: About Nodal and tissue intrinsic forces

Posted by , on 11 December 2013

Although we all appear symmetrical from the outside, the organization of our internal organs and organ structure are highly asymmetric. Proper asymmetric positioning and patterning of our organs is very ...

Why don’t they tell Postdocs this Stuff? - Secrets to a Successful Science Career

Posted by , on 10 December 2013

Some scientists would say that postdoctoral fellows have the most desirable position in the lab. As a postdoc, you have the research experience from your PhD to give you credibility ...

Outreach competition- find your own science metaphor!

Posted by , on 5 December 2013

Development recently published an article by Ben-Zion Shilo on his recent science outreach project. In this project, Benny aimed to explain concepts of developmental biology to the public by identifying ...

Conveying principles of embryonic development by metaphors from daily life

Posted by , on 5 December 2013

This article was first published in Development, and was written by Ben-Zion Shilo, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. How can the revolution in our understanding of embryonic development and stem ...

A Perfect Lab Leaving List

Posted by , on 4 December 2013

Say goodbye to the lab books. They may let you keep it. But usually, sadly, it must stay. Despite being illegible to anyone but you, and never mind the amusing ...

Job opening: PhD position Wnt signaling and stem cell biology

Posted by , on 3 December 2013

We have an opening for a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. This research project will investigate the behaviour and control of Wnt-responsive stem cells in ...

Setting the record straight- an interview with Daniel St Johnston

Posted by , on 3 December 2013

Professor Daniel St Johnston is a prominent developmental biologist and the current director of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge (UK). The St Johnston lab recently retracted two papers, in what ...

In Development this week (Vol. 140, Issue 24)

Posted by , on 3 December 2013

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   One-step transdifferentiation Terminally differentiated cells are generally considered to be in a developmentally locked state in vivo; they are ...

Developmental and genetic research at Otago: Genetics Otago symposium 28-29th November 2013

Posted by , on 2 December 2013

Meeting report for Genetics Otago symposium 28-29th November 2013. The annual Genetics Otago symposium was held in the newly refurbished HD Skinner Annex of the Otago Museum in sunny (yes, ...

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