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The Future of Research Symposium:
How Scientists are Trained
Posted by Gary McDowell, on 23 September 2014
This is the first of four posts relating to the Future of Research symposium which was announced in a previous blog post. Each of these posts will discuss a topic ...Posted by Catarina Vicente, on 10 September 2014
Last month I was lucky enough to attend the Xenopus meeting, which took place at the Asilomar conference grounds, close to Monterey, California. This meeting was fantastic, combining great science with a great venue. ...Posted by Joana Carvalho, on 4 September 2014
Hello everyone, Recently I got assigned with the task of designing good primers for ChIP. My supervisor advised me to use the Primer BLAST tool from NCBI together with AmplifiX ...Posted by Katherine Brown, on 2 September 2014
This editorial was first published in Development. We encourage feedback from the community on our policies – please leave any comments below. A central premise of scientific publishing – that publication ...Posted by Gary McDowell, on 27 August 2014
You may have noticed a recent trend in the perception of the graduate and postdoctoral experience, be it in the state of our mental health; or perceived career goal of ...Posted by Thomas Butts, on 11 August 2014
I write this article in the beautiful city of Vienna at the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology meeting 2014. This is a meeting that happens every two years and ...Posted by the Node, on 6 August 2014
This Spotlight article was written by Stefan Schulte-Merker and Didier Y. R. Stainier, and was first published in Development. Morpholino oligomers have been used widely and for many years in the zebrafish community ...Posted by Footy, on 2 August 2014
Hello everyone. My background is in systems engineering, and i have over forty years experience of building and trouble shooting mechanical/hydraulic systems. I have an interest in the evolution ...Posted by SAW, on 17 July 2014
“There is no such thing as a non-model organism” R. Behringer This bold statement was announced less than a week into our Embryology course and has left a lasting impression ...Posted by hmsouza, on 13 July 2014
By Henrique Marques-Souza and Rodrigo Nunes da Fonseca Widely known as the country of soccer, samba and beautiful beaches, one might wonder if it is possible to perform high ...