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San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

Posted by , on 17 May 2013

In December last year, a group of editors and publishers, including editors from our sister journal Journal of Cell Science, got together at the annual ASCB meeting to discuss ways ...

From Sequence to Function

Posted by , on 17 May 2013

  It took longer than the human genome, if by only a few years, but it has finally arrived. The sequencing of the zebrafish (Danio rerio) genome reported in Howe ...

A Taste of Stem Cells

Posted by , on 16 May 2013

Continuous supply of mature differentiated cells by adult stem cells is required in most of adult tissues especially those with rapid turnover rates. In recent years, using advanced cell biological ...

Enter the EuroStemCell non-fiction writing competition!

Posted by , on 15 May 2013

Spring has sprung! The sun is out at last (sort of), but that’s not the only great news we’ve got from EuroStemCell: we’ve launched our first ever stem cell non-fiction writing ...

The Node new community manager!

Posted by , on 14 May 2013

Hi! My name is Cat and I am the new Community Manager here at The Node. I am originally from Portugal, but moved to the UK to study a long time ago ...

So now I'm a Development editor!

Posted by , on 29 April 2013

I got the call and immediately said yes. What a thrill to be asked to join the best developmental biology journal there is! Then I talked to some colleagues afterwards ...

SpotOn highlights the Node

Posted by , on 25 April 2013

SpotOn, Nature Publishing Group’s online forum for science policy, outreach and tools, and organiser of community events, is currently running a series on the use of social media for science ...

Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) announces new Editor-in-Chief and Senior Editors

Posted by , on 25 April 2013

  This week, Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) formally announced the appointment of a new team of academic editors to lead the journal. Ross Cagan, Associate Dean of the Graduate ...

Towards a staging series for dinosaur embryos?

Posted by , on 19 April 2013

Last week, I was distracted somewhat by a palaeontology article in Nature: Reisz and colleagues reported their discovery of some fossilised dinosaur embryos. Not exactly relevant to my research, but ...

Stem cells image competition: the result

Posted by , on 13 April 2013

The results of the latest image competition, this time featuring five beautiful stem cell images, are in! In what rapidly turned into a two horse race between the corn snake ...

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