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Sweetening with a pinch of salt: maximized Cas9 efficiency in zebrafish

Posted by , on 14 June 2016

  Alexa Burger, Mosimann lab, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zürich, Switzerland. When I first heard about the “new” genome editing method in early 2013 called CRISPR-Cas9, I ...

This month on the Node - May 2016

Posted by , on 1 June 2016

May was most notable for the departure of the Node’s brilliant Community Manager, Cat Vicente. Cat said her goodbyes here, but we’d like to take this opportunity to thank her ...

This month on the Node- April 2016

Posted by , on 3 May 2016

Here are some of the posts we featured on the Node in the last month!   Research – Chen-Hui wrote about skinbow,  a new system to study cell dynamics during epithelial ...

This month on the Node- March 2016

Posted by , on 1 April 2016

  Focus on organoids Following Development’s call for papers for their upcoming Special Issue on Organoids, we featured an interview with their guest editor Melissa Little, discussing her career and research on ...

This month on the Node- February 2016

Posted by , on 1 March 2016

Research – Two different applications of optogenetics were highlighted on the Node this month. Giorgia wrote about how optogenetics can be used to control morphogenesis in Drosophila. Meanwhile, Clare and Rachel described ...

This month on the Node- January 2016

Posted by , on 1 February 2016

We’ve had a busy start to 2016 on the Node! Check out this round-up of new content, and remember to check our Jobs page for new opportunities, and our Events ...

Top Node posts of 2015

Posted by , on 4 January 2016

Happy New Year everyone! The past year presented us with the usual mix of quirky and interesting developmental biology, and we’ve had posts about new meetings, research, resources and more. Now ...

This month on the Node- November 2015

Posted by , on 1 December 2015

Our jobs page was very busy this month! Check out the 13 new positions available. Elsewhere on the Node:   Research: – Mike Levin explains how his group used artificial ...

This month on the Node- October 2015

Posted by , on 1 November 2015

Research: – Can we make embryos in silico? Miquel posted about his recent paper in Bioinformatics, and the modeling framework he implemented in the new tool EmbryoMaker. – What does YAP ...

This month on the Node- September 2015

Posted by , on 1 October 2015

  Research: – Are cellular movements essential for the formation of Turing patterns? Two theoretical chemists posted about their recent paper in Nature Communications! – David wrote his recent paper in ...

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