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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by BSDB, on 12 December 2019
POLL NOW CLOSED – THANKS TO ALL WHO TOOK PART Increasing numbers of biologists are becoming reluctant to travel to conferences due to concerns about climate change. We aim ...Posted by Katherine Brown, on 21 November 2019
For the first time in 20 years, researchers from across the continent gathered for the European Developmental Biology Congress in Alicante, Spain (October 23-26 2019). Fortunately, we won’t have to ...Posted by zelhanil, on 28 October 2019
A bit of background The dependence of a protein’s function on its structure is a well-known phenomenon. Back in 1970’s, it was suggested that most proteins would fold into one ...Posted by Martyna Lukoseviciute, on 14 May 2019
The non-profit publishing groups can make a real difference The very best part of being a scientist is cracking mysteries of the universe and what is in it. The second ...Posted by Jelle van den Ameele, on 10 May 2019
By Ghislain Gillard, Maria J. Gomez Lamarca, Robert Krautz, Rosa Park, David Salvador-Garcia, Yara Sanchez-Corrales and Jelle van den Ameele On the 28th of January, the Cambridge Fly Club ...Posted by Katherine Brown, on 9 May 2019
Back in January, The Cambridge Fly Club held a symposium to mark 25 years since the publication of the famous Gal4/UAS paper (Brand & Perrimon, 1993 – published in Development); ...Posted by boudaoud, on 30 April 2019
Written by Antoine Fruleux and Arezki Boudaoud As Lewis Wolpert put it (Wolpert, PLoS Biology 2010), if you extend your two arms, you will likely find that they match in ...Posted by Gemma Anderson, on 19 March 2019
An artist and a cultural historian of science visiting the European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) Gemma Anderson (University of Exeter) and Janina Wellmann (MECS, Leuphana University Lüneburg) Since Steve Woolgar’s ...Posted by mpalfy, on 25 February 2019
Mate Palfy & Gautam Dey In the summer of 2018, two commentaries from the Science Media Center (an open letter from Chief Executive Fiona Fox and a ‘World View’ ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 23 February 2019
In this episode we’re looking at the genetics of failure – why we fail to lose weight thanks to our genes, and why ignoring genetic information and DNA diversity leads ...