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Engaging the public with fundamental biology: why it’s tough but still worth doing

Posted by , on 22 March 2023

by Naomi Clements-Brod and Hélène Doerflinger What is Public Engagement with Research? Public Engagement with Research (PER) encompasses ways of engaging the public with the design, conduct and dissemination of ...

If you give a scientist a cuttlefish . . .

Posted by , on 20 March 2023

She might not see it the next day. At first glance, the slag in the saltwater aquarium is just a rock covered with purple jasmine polyps and green star polyps. ...

Behind the paper and the SciComm story: uncovering the role of CNKSR2 in the chick forebrain

Posted by , on 17 March 2023

“CNKSR2: Identifying and elucidating the role of a novel downstream effector of RA signalling in chick forebrain morphogenesis“ In the February issue of Development, Niveda and her colleagues report on ...

Behind the paper story: 'How heterotypic cis/trans factors drive stomatal cell fate commitment’

Posted by , on 16 March 2023

Dr. Eun-Deok Kim and Professor Keiko Torii from The University of Texas at Austin, USA, have recently published an article in Nature Plants. The article discusses how heterotypic cis/trans factors ...

11th Avian Model Systems Meeting, 11-14 Sep 2023 in Portsmouth, UK

Posted by , on 8 March 2023

The 11th Avian Model Systems Meeting will take place 11-14 September 2023 in Portsmouth, UK.

Periodic inhibition of Erk activity drives sequential somite segmentation

Posted by , on 23 February 2023

Node Blog: Behind the Paper Story Clocks, gradients and segmentation Muhammed Simsek, Ertuğrul Özbudak and colleagues have discovered that oscillations in the ppErk gradient, driven by the Her1-Her7 oscillator, is ...

Charting new territory: mapping the cell types in the octopus brain

Posted by , on 17 February 2023

Ruth Styfhals and Dr. Eve Seuntjens at the KU Leuven, Belgium, recently published a cell type atlas of a developing octopus brain in Nature Communications. The team behind the paper ...

January in preprints

Posted by , on 3 February 2023

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. Congratulations to all the researchers who kicked off 2023 by preprinting their research. The preprints this ...

Stories from Christopher Wright

Posted by , on 1 February 2023

At the Joint Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) – Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology Meeting in 2022, I spoke to Christopher Wright, the winner of the 2022 SDB Victor ...

COVID has increased trust in genetics - a press release from the Genetics Society

Posted by , on 25 January 2023

A survey of over 2000 British adults, commissioned by the Genetics Society through Kantar Public, finds that trust in genetics is high, and went up significantly during the pandemic. It ...

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