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Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 22 April 2011
Axons have such important jobs to do that they require their own support staff. Schwann cells are responsible for ensheathing axons of the peripheral nervous system with myelin, which allows ...Posted by the Node, on 21 April 2011
A few weeks ago, you selected this sea urchin image from the Woods Hole embryology course as a cover for Development. We have many more images from this course, and ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 12 April 2011
If there is hope to fully understand stem cells, then the environment surrounding those stem cells must be understood too. A recent Development paper describes important results on niche establishment ...Posted by the Node, on 4 April 2011
Congratulations to Stéphane Vincent of the IGBMC in Illkirch, France, who won the Node’s intersection image competition: His image showing staining of a gut section of a E17.5 mouse embryo ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 29 March 2011
The Royal Society has collected a series of images that illustrate the moment important scientific discoveries were made. This “Moments of Seeing Further” collection includes a notebook sketch from 1980, ...Posted by the Node, on 21 March 2011
In the Node’s recent image competition, we asked for images related to developmental biology and some sort of intersection – playing on the double meaning of the word “node” in ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 9 March 2011
The power of stem cells lies in the ability to give rise to many different cell types. The stem cells found in the neural crest are no exception, and a ...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 the Node, on 28 February 2011
Last summer you’ve been able to follow the experiences of a few of the students of the Woods Hole embryology course on the Node. You could tell from their stories ...