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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by cdemers, on 5 July 2016
Unraveling Development Embryonic development is a complex and regulated spatiotemporal ensemble of signaling cues that control cell differentiation. Most of what we now know comes from experimenting directly on embryos. ...Posted by Gary McDowell, on 2 July 2016
I woke up this morning to a Facebook reminder of where I was 5 years ago. I was in Lille, France, on a 2 month sabbatical at Université Lille 1 ...Posted by the Node, on 30 June 2016
On the 23rd of June the United Kingdom held a referendum on whether to remain a member of the European Union or to leave. Prior to the vote, Nature reported that ...Posted by the Node, on 30 June 2016
To complement our Questions of the Month, we’ve brought together some post-referendum science links News and Comment Nature reported on science’s reaction to the news, on post-ref limbo, bemoaned the lack of a ...Posted by Thomas Butts, on 26 June 2016
My informal review of YEN this year is by necessity a bit rushed but, for what it is, here it is. Most reviews are very short and pithy/jealous and only ...Posted by Disease Models and Mechanisms, on 20 June 2016
” the ability to reproduce experimental findings remains essential for the forward movement of science and the application of laboratory findings to the clinic” This is an extract from ...Posted by the Node, on 31 May 2016
Earlier this month, two papers were published (from the Brivanlou and Zernicka-Goetz labs) that reported in vitro systems to study development of the human embryo through implantation stages. These experiments ...Posted by Carlos Carmona-Fontaine, on 25 May 2016
By Carlos Carmona-Fontaine and Patricia Nunes Most scientific conferences have become large gatherings where little exchange of ideas can actually occur. There are way too many people to start ...Posted by Catarina Vicente, on 12 May 2016
A few weeks ago, as I listened to Classic FM while trying to finish some of my projects on the Node, I came across a piano composition by Erik Satie ...Posted by the Node, on 28 April 2016
In the last few years, the life sciences have been plagued by cases of scientific misconduct which led to corrections, retractions and, to some extent, in a lack of trust on ...