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Special issue on morphogenesis

Posted by , on 22 September 2020

A notice from Royal Society Publishing Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special issue from Philosophical Transactions B – Contemporary morphogenesis, organized and edited by Kyra Campbell, Emily S Noël, ...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow position: Evolutionary Origin of Synapses and Neurons at Sars Centre in Bergen, Norway

Posted by , on 6 August 2020

There is a vacancy for a postdoctoral research fellow position at the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology (www.sars.no) in the research group headed by Dr. Pawel Burkhardt. The ...

An ode to the Node: 10 years in the life of a community blog

Posted by , on 7 July 2020

This Editorial by Aidan Maartens, Katherine Brown and James Briscoe was published yesterday in Development. Don’t forget that we’re celebrating 10 years with a free online networking event on July ...

FocalPlane: a new microscopy community site from The Company of Biologists

Posted by , on 2 July 2020

FocalPlane is a new microscopy community site hosted by Journal of Cell Science (JCS), Development’s sister journal, and like the Node funded by our not-for-profit publisher, The Company of Biologists. ...

Survey about online seminars & conferences

Posted by , on 23 June 2020

The ongoing pandemic has resulted in many scientific conferences moving to an online format, and researchers who can no longer attend seminars at their institutes have been organising and attending ...

Research Highlight #5: Leukemic stem cells from iPSCs

Posted by , on 9 June 2020

Today let’s delve into a curious case involving induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and leukemic stem cells (LSCs). Most blood cells derived from iPSCs are unable to engraft in immunodeficient ...

Research Highlight #4: Macrophages in human development

Posted by , on 1 June 2020

Today we return our interest to human development, focusing on a special blood cell: the macrophage. Produced in multiple, stem cell-independent waves, macrophages colonize the developing foetus early on, forming ...

Research Highlight #3: IL-1 regulates haematopoietic stem cell pool size via PU.1

Posted by , on 25 May 2020

Today, we move to mouse adult haematopoiesis, with an elegant work on inflammation and stem cell biology. As always, feedback is more than welcome! Chronic inflammation is one of the ...

Staying connected during the COVID19 pandemic

Posted by , on 21 May 2020

Among many other (many more important) things, pandemic times have meant an end to travel, which for the Development team means no conferences and no lab visits. For me personally, ...

Last chance to take our user survey

Posted by , on 19 May 2020

We’ve had a great response so far to our tenth birthday user survey, which we hope will guide us going forwards and give us ideas for how we can better ...

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