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The end of biology?

Posted by , on 9 July 2013

  ‘England is the only nation on earth that has managed to limit the power of kings by resisting them, and has finally established a wise system of government in ...

SpotLight on Otago: Distant Developments

Posted by , on 2 July 2013

Developmental biology from near the south pole Kia Ora from New Zealand Hi, I’m Megan Wilson and I’m a lecturer in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Otago, ...

Red fish, blue fish, Brainbow fish!

Posted by , on 11 June 2013

Here is a little backstory to our zebrafish Brainbow (Zebrabow) paper published in Development. After finishing up my graduate work in Josh Sanes’s lab at Harvard, I decided to join ...

Bullying in the lab

Posted by , on 14 May 2013

The lab can be one of the greatest places in the world to make live long friends. Spending countless hours in a tissue culture room late into the middle of ...

Microinjection of preimplantation mouse embryos

Posted by , on 28 January 2013

Hello, my name is Stephanie and I’m a graduate student in Dr. Amy Ralston’s lab at the University of California Santa Cruz.  I just returned from a trip to Dr. ...

Overly Honest Methods

Posted by , on 8 January 2013

Why did you incubate that sample for 16 hours? Because you wanted to go home for the day – but that much detail is not in your paper! Last night, ...

Behind the Paper: Support beyond Countries

Posted by , on 23 September 2012

When Dr. Eva Amsen, Community Manager for the Node and Online Editor for Development, recommended me to write this post in connection with our recent publication about mechanisms of pectoral ...

Homeward bound

Posted by , on 10 May 2012

It’s been longer than I’d hoped since I last wrote, but a whole heck of a lot has been going on. Monday last week, the professor in charge of international ...

And of course there's a hedgehog...in the car

Posted by , on 28 April 2012

We have been getting pretty good videos for the past few days, but it seems the animals have realized we aren’t actually predators and have gone on strike. After the ...

Of course there are chickens...

Posted by , on 27 April 2012

We just got back from the desert about a half hour ago, at 2:30 am, after a pretty successful evening. We also went earlier in the day to build a ...

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