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Sci-Art: Harnessing the power of creativity to promote more inclusive learning opportunities 

Posted by , on 24 July 2024

Read the behind the scenes of creating the SciArt exhibit “Genetic Symphonies: building Hox of life”.   

New genome reveals ancient toolkit

Posted by , on 23 July 2024

Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus is an emerging model to understand stem cell evolution Stem cells can’t hide what they are. At least, that’s the takeaway from the newly sequenced genomes of two ...

Development presents... August webinar on neurodevelopment and disorders

Posted by , on 23 July 2024

Hear from three early-career researchers studying neurodevelopment and disorders. Chaired by Debby Silver.

SciArt Profile: Friedrich Bliem

Posted by , on 17 July 2024

In this SciArt profile, we meet Friedrich Bliem, who has a background in cell biology and scientific illustration and has been creating "Art in Science" paintings for decades.

Development presents... July webinar on plant development

Posted by , on 16 July 2024

Hear from three early-career researchers studying plant development. Chaired by Dominique Bergmann.

8th Nucleic Acids Conference

Posted by , on 14 July 2024

In the 8th nucleic acid conference, the central theme will be to understand processes involving DNA and RNA at the molecular and chemical level, with a marked structural and mechanistic perspective. ...

2nd Recombination Mechanisms Conference

Posted by , on 14 July 2024

This conference will bring together scientists working at the forefront of DNA recombination (both mitotic and meiotic), repair, replication, transcription, epigenetics, and cancer biology. Presentations will consider diverse cutting-edge methodologies ...

June in preprints

Posted by , on 10 July 2024

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv – use these links below to ...

Improving laboratory animal genetic reporting

Posted by , on 9 July 2024

The LAG-R framework (Laboratory Animal Genetic Reporting) has just been published in Nature Communications with Lydia Teboul, head of our Molecular Cell Biology team at the Mary Lyon Centre at ...

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