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Human Stem Cell research: new ethical questions?

Posted by , on 21 October 2014

The Ethics Session at the Company of Biologists “From Stem Cells to Human Development” workshop Last September the Company Of Biologists organized an exciting three-day dive into the biology of ...

Gone Fishing. Zebrafish Meeting 2014, Madison, WI.

Posted by , on 15 October 2014

“In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.” ~Albert Einstein. This year the biannual Zebrafish meeting started out in the best possible ...

Crossing fields- EMBO conference on interdisciplinary plant development

Posted by , on 8 October 2014

There is something exciting about biologists joining forces with physicists and/or mathematicians, and finding a common language to solve biological problems that are just too complex to understand without stepping ...

'From Stem Cells to Human Development' - A Company of Biologists' Workshop

Posted by , on 3 October 2014

Last week, several of the Company of Biologists’ team de-camped to Surrey for our latest Workshop ‘From Stem Cells to Human Development’. Unlike previous events, this was a larger meeting, ...

The Future of Research Symposium:

The Funding of Research

Posted by , on 1 October 2014

This is the last 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 ...

“Smells Like Development” - The 73rd Society for Developmental Biology Meeting

Posted by , on 30 September 2014

Hosted in beautiful Seattle, the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) held its 73rd Annual Meeting on the University of Washington campus in (mostly) sunny July. Here researchers from around the ...

The Future of Research Symposium:

Metrics: The Folly of Hoping for X whilst Rewarding Y

Posted by , on 29 September 2014

This is the third 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 ...

The Future of Research Symposium:

How Scientists are Trained

Posted by , 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 ...

I left my frog in San Francisco:

The 15th International Xenopus Conference

Asilomar CA, 2014

Posted by , on 22 September 2014

Every two years, the international Xenopus community gathers to meet. Two years ago I wrote about the meeting in Toulon, France and this time we crossed the pond to Asilomar, ...

International Research Conference on Science, Health and Medicine 2014 (IRCSHM 2014)

Posted by , on 22 September 2014

[Apologies for cross-postings!] Call for Papers – IRCSHM 2014 October 15-16, Dubai, UAE Dear Colleague, The unique idea behind International Research Conference on Science, Health and Medicine 2014 (IRCSHM 2014) ...

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