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Plant stem cells strive towards equality

Posted by , on 8 February 2019

By George Bassel and Iain Johnston Multicellular organs consist of collections of cells which come together to achieve what individual cells cannot. The establishment of order in complex tissues has ...

The people behind the papers – Masanori Kawaguchi, Kota Sugiyama and Yoshiyuki Seki

Posted by , on 8 February 2019

This interview, the 57th in our series, was recently published in Development The molecular regulation of pluripotency has been most intensively studied in early mammalian development, but whether the transcriptional networks ...

Scientific Coordinator in Epigenetics at Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU)

Posted by , on 7 February 2019

  Epigenetics research is central to understanding environment-genome interactions, which in turn is fundamental to advancing environmental health research, the key focus area of Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU). The strength ...

Funded places for early-career researchers at a Company of Biologists Workshop in July

Posted by , on 7 February 2019

This summer, the Company of Biologists, the not-for-profit publisher of Development, is running a Workshop on ‘New frontiers in the brain: unexpected roles of the choroid plexus-cerebrospinal fluid system in ...

Hox genes: the key to decipher limb position – the story behind the paper

Posted by , on 6 February 2019

In our recent paper published in Current Biology, we unravel the direct and early role for Hox genes in the regulation and natural variation of the forelimb position in birds. ...

Improving the visibility of developmental biology: time for induction and specification

Posted by , on 6 February 2019

This Spotlight article by Len Zon originally appeared in Development as part of our ‘Advocating developmental biology‘ campaign. We’d love to hear what you think about Len’s ideas. Developmental biology ...

EmbryoPhenomics: An open-source technological platform

Posted by , on 5 February 2019

Tills O, Spicer JI, Grimmer A, Marini S, Jie VW, Tully E, Rundle SD. 2018. A high-throughput and open-source platform for embryo phenomics. PLOS Biology, 16:1-19. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000074 Background A seasoned ...

PhD position available – Paul Villoutreix’s group (CENTURI - LIS)

Posted by , on 4 February 2019

A PhD position is open in the QARMA team (LIS – Marseille, France).  The recruited student will join Paul Villoutreix’s group ( @paulvilloutreix ): Data Science and Developmental Biology. PhD students will also be part of ...

Experimenting with non-anonymous peer review

Posted by , on 3 February 2019

Last year, I started to experiment with signing my reports for peer review of manuscripts, inspired by other people on twitter (@kaymtye, @AndrewPlested who in turn were inspired by Leslie ...

Postdoctoral position in Mouse Embryonic Development and Stem Cell Biology

Posted by , on 1 February 2019

We offer one fully-funded postdoctoral position up to five years in the Laboratory of Genome Integrity located at the main campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH/NCI, Bethesda, MD).Our ...

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