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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by the Node, on 25 April 2014
Last month we attended the joint meeting of the British Society for Developmental Biology and the British Society for Cell Biology in Warwick. At the time we had the opportunity ...Posted by Mario Metzler, on 16 April 2014
FRT sites are used often (at least in Drosophila) for inducing deletions or “flipping out” of markers in transgenic constructs. When there are two FRTs sequences in tandem, after inducing ...Posted by Lilian Hunt, on 11 April 2014
I recently took part in the ‘I’m a scientist, get me out of here!’ outreach event. As soon as the school children found out I was a developmental geneticist and ...Posted by Disease Models and Mechanisms, on 18 March 2014
‘Science is often romanticised as a flawless system of knowledge building, where scientists work together to systematically find answers. In reality, this is not always the case. Dissemination of results ...Posted by ama, on 27 December 2013
In time of revision: of Wingless and morphogens Alfonso Martinez Arias The recent publication of the important work of C. Alexandre, LA. Baena and JP. Vincent on the molecular requirements ...Posted by the Node, on 3 December 2013
Professor Daniel St Johnston is a prominent developmental biologist and the current director of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge (UK). The St Johnston lab recently retracted two papers, in what ...Posted by Thomas Butts, on 28 October 2013
‘‘None of the scientists would comment on the record, for fear that it would affect their funding or that of their postdocs and graduate students’’ Nature, September 2012 ‘Is science ...Posted by Alexandra de Sousa, on 28 October 2013
“Evolution of the Human Neocortex: How Unique Are We?” was the question asked at the Wiston House in West Sussex from 22-25 September 2013. Although we were hardly the first to ...Posted by SteveBriscoe, on 20 October 2013
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the ...Posted by Ewart Kuijk, on 1 October 2013
Stuck! Here I was trapped in this valley with no way out. And it was crowded here, with all of my fibers I sensed numerous peers condemned to a similar ...