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An interview with Kate Storey and Silvia Marino

Posted by , on 27 May 2010

(Originally published in Development) In February 2010, in the beautiful setting of Wiston House, nestled at the foot of the hilly South Downs in Sussex, UK, The Company of Biologists, ...

The dish on career choices

Posted by , on 26 May 2010

When we did a survey among attendees of the British Society for Development Biology meeting in April, we asked what topics you would like to discuss on the Node. One ...

March of Dimes award for Shinya Yamanaka

Posted by , on 19 May 2010

Earlier this month, Shinya Yamanaka, of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco, won the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology for his groundbreaking work on induced ...

Tips for blogging from meetings

Posted by , on 11 May 2010

At the Node we welcome reports from scientific meetings, but only if the meeting organizers and speakers allow it. I’m currently writing the Node’s guidelines for meeting reports, and then ...

Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conferences

Posted by , on 5 May 2010

Earlier this year, Cold Spring Harbor Asia opened a new conference centre in Suzhou, China. Located near Shanghai, the conference centre gives the research community in Asia an international conference ...

Recent comments by Eva Amsen

Hi Caroline! Hope you're off to a good start and that you're enjoying my old desk... :)
by Eva Amsen in New Reviews Editor at Development! on March 22, 2013
I think I just question the entire thing. I don't think prizes were the best way to show support of life science research. According to the Guardian piece (and an older one abut the physics prize), they seem to think that showing that science can be glamorous and rewarding would motivate young scientists. It seems to suggest that they think that a lack of motivation or a lack of dreams is currently keeping people from going into the life sciences and pursuing the noble fight against various diseases, when in fact there are more people interested in working in biomedical research than there are currently positions for. I'm happy for the winners, and it's a really great selection of people, but I don't think anyone else became extra motivated to work harder on their own research with the dream of being one of the winners later. And even if they did, how WOULD they work harder when either they or their collaborators are having trouble just keeping their labs running? Related: "Philantropy: You're Doing it Wrong" http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/12/25/philanthropy-youre-doing-it-wrong/
by Eva Amsen in Breakthrough Prize floors winners with sheer amount of money on February 21, 2013
Hi Daniel, Emma already spoke for EuroStemCell, but this *might* be something we'd consider covering on the Node in general. The only problem is that there factually *isn't* much to write about. Your comment says it all, really: he sued the Nobel Assembly, the assembly said they didn't know him, and nothing seems to have happened after that. It's a bit hard for us (at the Node) to write about with so little info, but if a researcher in the field wanted to write an opinion post about it, and focus on the papers and patents that are in question, they're more than welcome to!
by Eva Amsen in Stem cells at school, plus new fact sheets on EuroStemCell on February 14, 2013
See also the interview with Roger Barker about this same paper https://thenode.biologists.com/an-interview-with-roger-barker/ , and the videos on EuroStemCell http://www.eurostemcell.org/story/studying-huntingtons-disease-using-stem-cells-lab
by Eva Amsen in Hope for Huntington’s on January 15, 2013
Thanks for your update, Mahim! For anyone else interested in a travelling fellowship, the deadline for the current round of applications is December 31st! More info: https://thenode.biologists.com/travelling-fellowships-3/
by Eva Amsen in Academic Visit to Oxford University : Thanks to Development Travelling Fellowship on December 18, 2012