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Posted by Thomas Butts, on 18 July 2011
Last week, the butterfly keepers at the Natural History Museum in London came across an incredibly rare phenomenon: a lateral gynandromorph. This butterfly is both male and female, and the ...Posted by the Node, on 13 July 2011
We’d like to draw your attention to one of the current job postings, even if you don’t normally look at the job ads page. After 8 very successful years with ...Posted by Jonathan Lawson, on 12 July 2011
This is my personal report on the second of three laboratory projects which I have undertaken during the rotation year of my 4-year Wellcome Trust PhD. I studied how yeast ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 11 July 2011
There’s an interesting interview in Nature News, with Abdelali Haoudi – the vice-president for research of the Qatar foundation. Qatar opened a biomedical research institute a few years ago, and ...Posted by the Node, on 5 July 2011
Since its launch in June 2010, the Node has attracted thousands of visitors. Some have visited only once, others return every day. Some have written on the site, others only ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 1 July 2011
Last week I attended the 18th international C. elegans meeting at UCLA, organised by the Genetics Society of America. Having done most of my scientific training with mammalian cell culture, ...Posted by the Node, on 22 June 2011
Exactly one year ago today, we launched the Node. Since then, we’ve accumulated a good number of regular readers, and some enthusiastic contributors. We’ve covered meetings, research, news, images and ...Posted by nathanhunkapiller, on 21 June 2011
Nathan M. Hunkapiller and Susan J. Fisher To accompany our research article in issue 138 (14) of Development, “A role for Notch signaling in trophoblast endovascular invasion and in the ...Posted by the Node, on 21 June 2011
Tomorrow is the Node’s first birthday, which means we’ve been online for a year now. We’ve taken a look at the archive of the past year as a reminder of ...Posted by Jonathan Lawson, on 20 June 2011
The 3D spatial arrangement of DNA within the nucleus is tightly controlled and has great functional significance. Each chromosome has been shown to occupy a defined nuclear territory and the ...