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Posted by Eva Amsen, on 21 November 2011
A group of graduate students at MIT have written a letter on behalf of American graduate students, urging the United States Congress not to cut science funding. The Congress Joint ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 17 November 2011
The web comic Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD) has been commiserating with graduate students since 1997. And now you can watch the comics come to live on the big screen, ...Posted by the Node, on 7 November 2011
Dates for your calendar This is a selection of upcoming dates of interest, but it’s by no means an exhaustive list. We’ll try to do these once in a while, ...Posted by Emma Kemp, on 18 October 2011
The European Court of Justice has today announced a landmark decision banning patenting of inventions based on embryonic stem cells. Several senior stem cell biologists have expressed their concern that ...Posted by the Node, on 5 October 2011
A few months ago we ran a survey on the Node to ask how you used the site, and if you had any suggestions. First of all, a big thank-you ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 3 October 2011
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has just been announced, and the winners are Bruce Beutler (The Scripps Research Institute), Jules Hoffmann (University of Strasbourg) and Ralph Steinman ...Posted by Nitin Sabherwal, on 26 September 2011
-By Nitin Sabherwal, Eugen Nacu, Heike Laman, Irene Gutierrez Vallejo and Anna Kicheva The second day of the workshop has finished and it is the reporting time now. We had ...Posted by the Node, on 15 September 2011
Scheduled Node Maintenance: This weekend (September 16-18) we’re upgrading the system that the Node runs on (WordPress), so you may not be able to access the site at times. Everything ...Posted by Paul O'Neill, on 8 September 2011
Transparency. A desirable virtue in many walks of life, and a particularly useful trait in developmental biology. Model organisms that are see-through offer unique advantages, especially when it comes to ...Posted by the Node, on 31 August 2011
Survey As you know we carried out a survey about the Node this summer. Thank you to those who answered our questions! It was very helpful. We’re currently analysing the ...