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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 ...

Call for Papers: a Special Collection on Neurodegenerative Diseases

Posted by , on 31 May 2016

Disease Models & Mechanisms invites you to submit original research for consideration for an upcoming Special Collection ‘Neurodegeneration: From Models to Mechanisms to Therapies‘. This ongoing collection will focus on ...

2 technical and 1 post-doctoral posts in cell biology, molecular endocrinology and skeletal biology, Imperial College London

Posted by , on 24 May 2016

Professors Graham Williams and Duncan Bassett have 3 full-time posts (5 years each) available. One technical post in skeletal biology is funded by the Horizon 2020 grant: Resetting the THYRoid ...

Reflecting on the student & postdoc events at the BSCB/BSDB Spring Meeting

Posted by , on 23 May 2016

Last year, the BSDB carried out a student and postdoc survey (see here), and the results clearly highlighted the need for more dedicated program items for young researchers on BSDB ...

A mouse embryo atlas using HREM data

Posted by , on 23 May 2016

For the first time, a reference mouse embryo atlas has been created using HREM image data. For other embryo imaging methods such as micro-CT, a reference embryo atlas has previously ...

Recovering from an earthquake: update from IMEG

Posted by , on 13 May 2016

I recently learned that the recent earthquakes in Kumamoto, Japan, severely affected the Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics (IMEG) – home to a large community of developmental biologists. Fortunately, ...

Big data: challenges and opportunities

Posted by , on 11 May 2016

“With great power comes great responsibility” In recent years, next-generation-sequencing approaches have churned out a huge amount of ‘big data’ – a wealth of digital information that could one day ...

New Node banners!

Posted by , on 6 May 2016

As you may have noticed, we have a series of new Node banners (alongside some of our old favourites). As there isn’t really space to give credit to the authors ...

Goodbye from Cat!

Posted by , on 6 May 2016

Today is my last day on the Node, so this is my chance to say goodbye!  It has been 3 very busy years on the Node, but I have really ...

YEN 2016 - register now!

Posted by , on 4 May 2016

Young Embryologists’ Network 2016 As a neglectful member of this parish over the last few months/years (insert standard academic administration/teaching workload complaints here), I have the great pleasure to come ...

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