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Postdoctoral Fellows (Two positions) in RNA Neurobiology at the Alonso Lab

Posted by , on 21 December 2016

Postdoctoral Fellows (Two positions) RNA Control of Neural Development and Behaviour Alonso Lab, University of Sussex Brighton, United Kingdom Two postdoctoral positions are available in the School of Life Sciences ...

LabCIRS - Learning from mistakes

Posted by , on 13 December 2016

Biomedical research is experiencing what has been termed a ‘reproducibility crisis’. There is much talk about how we can improve the rigor and robustness of our research to increase its ...

In Development this week (Vol. 143, Issue 24)

Posted by , on 13 December 2016

Here are the highlights from the new issue of Development…the last one of the year!   SETting chromatin state through transcription Setd5 is a poorly characterised murine member of the ...

Science in the City of Angels

Posted by , on 1 December 2016

Since the first reported results from Yamanaka et al. in 2006, pluripotent stem cell culture has become an advantageous approach for modeling human disorders and diseases. The directed differentiation of ...

In Development this week (Vol. 143, Issue 23)

Posted by , on 29 November 2016

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Syndecan 4 lets lymphatic endothelial cells go with the flow Fluid flow is known to play a role in ...

The elusive hematopoietic stem cells of Drosophila.

Posted by , on 22 November 2016

Drosophila hematopoiesis shows striking resemblance with that of vertebrates, both at the level of signalling molecules and the phase of development. Even though there has been no report of Hematopoietic ...

How to build and evolve a nervous system

Posted by , on 20 November 2016

Author Summary of “A gene regulatory network for apical organ neurogenesis and its spatial control in sea star embryos”.   Alys M. Cheatle Jarvela, Kristen A. Yankura, Veronica F. Hinman Development 2016 143: 4214-4223; doi: 10.1242/dev.134999 Very ...

Paris – Cambridge – Paris: a Megakaryocyte story

Posted by , on 14 November 2016

The first news came as a shock: so the British Railways are not always perfectly on time? For an Italian, that was a massive cultural shock. The second one was even more surprising: English weather ...

Forgotten classics: Rosa Beddington's chimeras

Posted by , on 11 November 2016

R. S. P. Beddington (1981). An autoradiographic analysis of the potency of embryonic ectoderm in the 8th day postimplantation mouse embryo. Journal of Experimental Embryology and Morphology. 64: 87-10. Open Access R. ...

A Day in the Life of a Coral Lab

Posted by , on 8 November 2016

Hi, I’m Yuuri Yasuoka, a postdoc in the Marine Genomics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST). Okinawa is a subtropical Japanese island surrounded by ...

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