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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Linda, on 22 December 2010
The other beauty of Fluorescent Reporter Gene Systems is its unbearable likeness to holiday colours.Posted by Seema Grewal, on 21 December 2010
Boning up on stem cell Igf2-P2 function The insulin-like growth factor (IGF)/insulin signalling pathway regulates cell proliferation, differentiation, aging and life span. During embryonic development, transcription of the mouse and ...Posted by Anita Abu-Daya, on 15 December 2010
The backstory to our recent Developmental Biology paper “The secreted integrin ligand nephronectin is necessary for forelimb formation in Xenopus tropicalis” includes scenes of several members of the Zimmerman ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 8 December 2010
We can all articulate the importance of using model organisms to understand biology, but many of us fall short in our understanding of some of the more uncommon model organisms. ...Posted by Pablo Astudillo, on 8 December 2010
Scientists don’t spend free time to think about the changes that made possible the birth of a new way to make research. For example, how we moved from a world ...Posted by Christian Mosimann, on 7 December 2010
The Node’s staff has kindly asked me to write a little “behind the scenes” on our zebrafish paper released today in Development, “Ubiquitous transgene expression and Cre-based recombination driven by ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 7 December 2010
The first issue of 2011 is out now…here are the highlights: Geminin control of lineage commitment The transition between pluripotency and multi-lineage commitment during early embryogenesis must be closely regulated ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 29 November 2010
Over the past months, we’ve seen a few posts on the Node from people who spent a few months working in labs abroad. All of them were funded by a ...Posted by maxamillion360, on 26 November 2010
Hello, I am Terry Jackson, a 6th year PhD student in Genetics and Genomics at Duke University which is located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. I am working on my ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 23 November 2010
Pak1-ing a punch in lumen formation The generation and maintenance of correct lumen size and shape is essential for the function of tubular organs. Now, Monn Monn Myat and co-workers ...