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Postdoctoral position in chromatin and epigenetic control of Drosophila development

Posted by , on 30 June 2016

Stockholm University, Sweden, invites applications for one postdoctoral position in the laboratory of Professor Mattias Mannervik at the Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute (http://www.su.se/mbw). The position is scheduled ...

YEN does it again

Posted by , on 29 June 2016

Last month saw the return of the Young Embryologist Network annual meeting held this year at the UCL Institute of Child Health. To settle into the long weekend, a number ...

From our sister journals - June 2016

Posted by , on 29 June 2016

Here is some developmental biology related content from other journals published by The Company of Biologists.   Cartilage development downstream of Notch Notch signalling regulates various aspects of vertebrate cartilage development, and Hilton ...

Plant “Velcro” holds it all together

Posted by , on 27 June 2016

  Plant hairs or trichomes mean little to most people until they bite into a furry skinned peach or prick their finger on a rose bush thorn, but in the ...

YEN 2016 review

Posted by , on 26 June 2016

My informal review of YEN this year is by necessity a bit rushed but, for what it is, here it is. Most reviews are very short and pithy/jealous and only ...

Model Organism Database funding is in trouble: Let your voice be heard

Posted by , on 23 June 2016

  Model Organisms such as yeast, worm, fly, fish, rat, and mouse are key drivers of biological research, providing manipulable and cost-effective experimental systems that continuously yield fundamental insights into ...

Reproducibility: a pathological perspective

Posted by , on 20 June 2016

” the ability to reproduce experimental findings remains essential for the forward movement of science and the application of laboratory findings to the clinic”   This is an extract from ...

Sweetening with a pinch of salt: maximized Cas9 efficiency in zebrafish

Posted by , on 14 June 2016

  Alexa Burger, Mosimann lab, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zürich, Switzerland. When I first heard about the “new” genome editing method in early 2013 called CRISPR-Cas9, I ...

Post-doc in Paris: Studying Stem Cell Genome Stability using Drosophila Intestinal Stem Cells (Biologists or Bioinformaticians)

Posted by , on 10 June 2016

Maintaining genome integrity of adult stem cells is important to prevent cancer initiation and stem cell functional decline during aging. Our recent work (Siudeja, Cell Stem Cell, 2015) has demonstrated ...

3D mini-brain sheds light on Zika Virus in the brain

Posted by , on 10 June 2016

The Zika virus is making headlines as a major world health crisis linked to a host of neurological conditions. In the cases of microcephaly and Guillain-Barre, the evidence that Zika Virus ...

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