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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 ...

Call for papers

Posted by , on 12 May 2020

Chan, Z., Santella, L., Tuszynski, J. and Gordon, R. (eds.) (2020) Waves in Fertilization, Cell Division and Embryogenesis [special issue of BioSystems, In preparation] [WAVS].  https://www.journals.elsevier.com/biosystems/call-for-papers/waves-in-fertilization-cell-division-and-embryogenesis   Deadline changed to ...

An update from Development

Posted by , on 11 May 2020

I wanted to take a couple of minutes to update you on how things are going at Development. I imagine many of you will be reading this on a laptop ...

JoVE for developmental biology research and eduction

Posted by , on 24 April 2020

Dear Developmental Biologists, We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Node for the chance to write a post about JoVE and how our resources can be beneficial ...

the Node turns 10 - please take our user survey

Posted by , on 23 April 2020

This year the Node hits double digits – our first post was published way back on April 1, 2010 (we’re now at over three and a half thousand posts and ...

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