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Posted by Emma Kemp, on 28 April 2011
Last month, the advocate-general of the European Court of Justice gave his opinion on a long-running legal debate about a patent filed several years ago in Germany. If the Court follows his ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 28 April 2011
We’ve had to find a new location for Thursday’s (today’s) Node meetup at the BSDB meeting. Find us Thursday April 28 at 8PM in the Gulbenkian Cinema Cafe/Bar. This is ...Posted by Sivani, on 8 April 2011
The recipients of Canada’s most prestigious science awards, the Gairdner Awards, was recently announced. The Awards recognize researchers for their contributions to the field of medical research. The 2011 Gairdner ...Posted by the Node, on 14 March 2011
We were deeply shocked to hear about the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, and would like to express our sympathy with the people of Japan. ...Posted by Emma Kemp, on 11 March 2011
I expect many of you have already seen reports that the European Advocate General has taken a very restrictive view on patents for technologies that use human embyronic stem cells. ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 9 March 2011
The 2011 Wellcome Image Awards were announced a few weeks ago, and developmental biology is well-represented in this year’s gallery, with images featuring cell division in plants, fish eye development, ...Posted by the Node, on 8 March 2011
Congratulations to Sarah A. Elliott (University of Utah) and Nobuo Ueda (University of Queensland), whose image of a sea urchin eating seaweed will appear on a cover of Development later ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 3 March 2011
Update 23/09/19: Please note that the below piece links to Dipity, a now defunct website. Over at the Drop In Blog you can read the story of what happened to ...Posted by Emma Kemp, on 2 March 2011
The discovery of iPS made headlines the world over, and rightly so. But recently, transdifferentiation between somatic cell types has also been the focus of considerable attention. A couple of ...Posted by katja.linssen, on 1 March 2011
10 – 13 September 2011, Vienna, Austria Featuring more than 120 world-class scientific speakers, including: Richard Axel, Susan Lindquist, Eric Wieschaus and Giacomo Rizzolatti. Three plenary lecture sessions: microbiology of ...