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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 ...

The hair follicle as a system of stem cell biology

Posted by , on 11 April 2013

Monday is tax day for most of us on the American side of the pond.  That ought to cause massive hair loss for many folks, but we have amazing hair ...

Stem cells image competition: voting

Posted by , on 14 March 2013

Over the last few weeks, you’ve been submitting your images for the Node and Development‘s stem cell cover competition. We received a large number of entries, and you’ve proved to ...

Stripes and Stem Cells

Posted by , on 7 March 2013

You didn’t stop developing once you were born (or hatched).  Our infant selves barely resemble ourselves as adults, thankfully, and stem cells play an important role in this continued development.  ...

Image competition: stem cells

Posted by , on 20 February 2013

In a journal like Development, full of beautiful immunofluorescence images of developing tissues and organisms, it’s quite rare that a picture of stem cells stands out from an aesthetic point ...

Cover winner: mouse confocal

Posted by , on 19 February 2013

We have a winner! This colourful image quickly took the lead, and stayed there. It will appear on the cover of Development soon. This confocal image (extended focus Z stack) ...

Things that look like Xenopus

Posted by , on 18 February 2013

Have you ever thought to yourself ‘Hey, that inanimate object looks just like a xenopus!’ No? Well maybe after reading this you will. I started a PhD in a Xenopus lab ...

Stem cell decisions and the cell cycle

Posted by , on 15 February 2013

A lot of things cycle in life, even down to the cellular level.  In the developing central nervous system, regulators of the cell cycle play important roles in maintaining the ...

Vote for a Development cover - Woods Hole 2012 class round 1

Posted by , on 30 January 2013

Each year, students of the Woods Hole Embryology course produce some amazing images. Last year, readers of the Node selected four images from the 2011 course to appear on the ...

Hope for Huntington's

Posted by , on 14 January 2013

Every time a biologist drives pluripotent cells to differentiate into a specialized cell type, patients of all sorts of diseases, disorders, and injuries allow their hope to grow.  A research ...

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