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Understanding and drugging RAS: 40 years to break the tip of the iceberg

Posted by , on 7 March 2022

Disease Models & Mechanisms has launched its latest Special Issue ‘The RAS Pathway: Diseases, Therapeutics and Beyond‘, which was guest edited by Donita Brady and Arvin Dar. In the accompanying ...

Developing news

Posted by , on 1 March 2022

Read on for our news roundup of the past month, with an emphasis on what has caught our eyes from our twitter feed.

January in preprints

Posted by , on 17 February 2022

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.

Repulsive interactions bring rapid mitotic divisions to order

Posted by , on 26 January 2022

New research, published in Development, describes repulsive forces driving the uniform distribution of nuclei in the developing embryo. Study conducted at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Ivo Telley & Jorge ...

Developing news

Posted by , on 18 January 2022

Welcome to our light-hearted look at the goings-on in the world of developmental biology in the last two weeks (or so).

December in preprints

Posted by , on 5 January 2022

Welcome to our monthly collection of preprints on developmental and stem cell biology (and related fields). The list includes a number of more unusual model organisms including squirrels, hippos, the ...

2021 in numbers

Posted by , on 31 December 2021

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Node in 2021. We hope you have enjoyed interacting with the site over the past year.

November in preprints

Posted by , on 15 December 2021

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.

The making of.. human blastoids

Posted by , on 9 December 2021

In our recently published paper1, we show that human stem cells self-organize into blastocyst-like structures, which we term blastoids based on 4 criteria. Because blastoids can be generated in large ...

Developing news

Posted by , on 7 December 2021

Welcome to our light-hearted look at the goings-on in the world of developmental biology in the last two weeks (or so).

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