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"Decoding the Language of Genetics", a review

Posted by , on 7 February 2016

Modern biology is impossible to understand without genetics. Students today would struggle to understand Mendelian inheritance without the idea of the gene, and labs worldwide use molecular biology and genetic ...

A day in the life of an embryonic stem cell lab!

Posted by , on 5 February 2016

Hi everyone! I’m Helena. Some of you may know me as the current intern here at the Node, but next week, I will go back to Alfonso Martínez Arias’ lab ...

3 year post-doctoral position in quantitative imaging of live embryos

Posted by , on 5 February 2016

We have an offering an exciting post-doctoral opportunity to image and quantitatively analyse tiny transparent ascidian embryos with a brand new multi view light sheet microscope. Apply now!

Pluripotency in the mouse and beyond…

Posted by , on 4 February 2016

Preimplantation development establishes the founding cell population of the adult mammal in the epiblast. This naïve pluripotent state employs a unique hand of transcription factors to ensure epigenetic resetting and ...

Woods Hole images 2014 round 1- the winner

Posted by , on 4 February 2016

And the winner of the latest round of images from the Woods Hole embryology course is… the short-tailed fruit bat embryo!   Here are the full results: – Pig embryo: ...

another attempt to widen access

Posted by , on 3 February 2016

Sorry for all the messing about, but there are now a number of ways of accessing  my latest polemic which is called The last 50 years: mismeasurement and mismanagement are ...

Interdisciplinary PhD Program on Quantitative Biology, Marseille France

Posted by , on 3 February 2016

PhD Program on Quantitative Biology – Open call: LabEx inform is a interdisciplinary and international research consortium on Quantitative Biology of Signaling, in Marseille, France (http://labex-inform.com/). LabEx INFORM has its ...

Using the mouse to model human disease: increasing validity and reproducibility

Posted by , on 3 February 2016

This editorial by Monica J. Justice and Paraminder Dhillon was first published in Disease Models & Mechanisms.   ABSTRACT Experiments that use the mouse as a model for disease have recently ...

Postdoctoral position, Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Harvard Medical School.

Posted by , on 3 February 2016

Postdoctoral position to study organogenesis and regeneration using the mouse hair follicle as a model system. The Morgan lab exploits genetically engineered mice to study the role of the mesenchyme ...

Postdoctoral Research Associate position in Cell Biology of Neuronal Differentiation - University of Manchester

Posted by , on 3 February 2016

Applications are invited for a highly motivated post-doctoral research associate to join the laboratory of Dr Raman Das in the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK. ...

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