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Outreach activity - Extracting DNA from kiwi fruit

Posted by , on 20 December 2013

DNA extraction from fruit is an easy experiment that makes a great demonstration for kids’ science fairs. I ran a DNA extraction stall at Oxford’s Wow!How? family science fair a ...

Molecular Genetics in the age of information overload

Posted by , on 18 December 2013

Those of us who are of a certain age can remember standing overwhelmed at the video store, agonizing over which movie to rent. Of course today video stores in the ...

iPad App Explores Fetal Development

Posted by , on 18 December 2013

  The Science Picture Company has launched an iPad app that explores pregnancy from a new perspective, Life in the Womb. The app follows the embryological and fetal development through ...

Outreach activity- Using modified ping-pong balls to demonstrate early embryogenesis and embryonic stem cell activity

Posted by , on 22 November 2013

  Why is this a good activity? It is often difficult to communicate how the organization of individual cells can affect later function, particularly with regard to early embryogenesis and ...

Stem Cells & Regeneration: Development's online home for stem cell research

Posted by , on 15 November 2013

Earlier this year, Development launched Stem Cells & Regeneration: a website dedicated to hosting all of the journal’s stem cell and regeneration content. This online home means that you can now ...

Data mining with Manteia

Posted by , on 15 November 2013

Following the publication in Nucleic Acids Research of my new database that I developed in Olivier Pourquié’s lab, I would like to introduce you to Manteia http://manteia.igbmc.fr/. This database contains ...

Outreach activity- fold your own protein

Posted by , on 17 October 2013

Have you ever folded a protein with your hands? You can do so by visiting our TeachingBASE. We invite you to create your own three-dimensional model of a protein using ...

Outreach activity- Speed-dating with scientists

Posted by , on 10 October 2013

Why is this a good activity? This event takes the form of a 5-minute conversation between a scientist and a visitor in a relaxed and entertaining space in a way ...

silicoCROSS: a help in genetic crosses

Posted by , on 12 August 2013

I’m quite a lazy person, and as such I like to find solutions to boring and repetitive tasks. One of those is the drawing of punnett squares in Drosophila genetics. ...

The Company of Biologists YouTube channel

Posted by , on 8 August 2013

As you may know, the Node is run by the Company of Biologists, a UK-based charity and non-for-profit publisher funded in 1925. The Company of Biologists publishes 5 scientific journals: ...

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