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Introducing introductory biology students to primary scientific literature: why it matters

Posted by , on 19 February 2019

A successful undergraduate science education includes teaching students science process skills, including critical analysis of primary scientific literature (PSL). Unfortunately, the use of PSL in the classroom remains limited due ...

The 1st Crick-Beddington Developmental Biology Symposium: Meeting Summary

Posted by , on 15 February 2019

The Francis Crick Institute held the 1st Crick-Beddington Developmental Biology Symposium last week, beginning on Monday the 4th of February. The two-day meeting was held in honour of the memory ...

Surprise findings turn up the temperature on the study of vernalization

Posted by , on 15 February 2019

Press Release from the John Innes Centre (link) New evidence has emerged about the agriculturally important process of vernalization in a development that could help farmers deal with financially damaging ...

Postdoctoral position in Airway Biology Lab at Harvard University

Posted by , on 14 February 2019

The Park laboratory has an immediate opening for postdoctoral fellow positions in the Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. ...

Postdoctoral position in Live Imaging Early Mammalian Development

Posted by , on 14 February 2019

The Posfai Lab (www.posfailab.org) at Princeton University is looking to recruit a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow. Our group studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms of cell fate choice and morphogenesis ...

Postdoctoral Position in Molecular Regulation of Developmental Cardiac Physiology

Posted by , on 13 February 2019

The Bressan Laboratory (www.bressanlab.com) at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is inviting applications for a postdoctoral fellow interested in developmental Cell Biology and Physiology research. The focus of ...

User-friendly p-values

Posted by , on 13 February 2019

A good statistic is the one that you can understand. Mean values are understandable and everybody knows how to calculate them. Most people also realize how the mean value can ...

"En Fase Experimental": a fresh podcast with an insiders view of science

Posted by , on 13 February 2019

Every fortnight, between the British Library and the St Pancras station, inside a wooden room in the ground floor of the Francis Crick Institute, four scientists discuss the present breakthroughs ...

PHD STUDENT AND POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS IN BIOINFORMATICS OR FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI

Posted by , on 13 February 2019

PhD student and postdoc positions available in the laboratory headed by Prof. Jussi Taipale and Dr. Norman Zielke at the Finnish Center of Excellence in Tumor Genetics Research (CoETG) at ...

Clones in bones - Looking for international PhD applicant at Monash University

Posted by , on 13 February 2019

International PhD student opportunity – Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute. Monash University Studying the clonal dynamics of cartilage stem cells during normal and perturbed bone growth   Looking for an international ...

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