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Celebrating stem cells

Posted by , on 1 November 2012

Last month was an exciting one for stem cell research. I’m sure you all saw how stem cells hit international headlines with the announcement of a Nobel Prize for John ...

The embryonic cell lineage of C. elegans, revisited and revisualized

Posted by , on 26 October 2012

On my desk sits a tattered photocopy of one of the pinnacles of modern developmental biology, the “embryonic lineage” paper by John Sulston, et al. (1983). In this paper, Sulston ...

Helsinki University laboratory visit funded by Development travel fellowship

Posted by , on 4 October 2012

I would like to express my gratitude for the travel fellowship I was awarded this year for a visit to a laboratory in Helsinki University. During my trip to Yka ...

Presentation tips from the EMBO meeting

Posted by , on 27 September 2012

At the EMBO meeting earlier this week, I had the opportunity to ask a few of the plenary speakers how they prepared for their talks. These speakers all had clear ...

Stem cell map of Europe

Posted by , on 25 September 2012

EuroStemCell is an EC-funded project that aims to help European citizens make sense of stem cells, by providing reliable, independent information and road-tested educational resources on stem cells and their ...

1DegreeBio: antibody resource with stem cell portal

Posted by , on 13 August 2012

I just came across a press release that looked like it might be interesting to some of you: 1DegreeBio has launched a Stem Cell Portal on its site, that allows ...

Essay competition writing tips

Posted by , on 23 May 2012

Have you started writing your essay yet? The Node and Development’s essay competition, “Developments in development”, is looking for essays in which you express your views about the future of ...

Funding for international postdocs

Posted by , on 11 May 2012

Rupinder emailed the Node recently to ask if we knew any sources for postdoc funding for international postdocs. Many PhD graduates travel to another country for their postdoc, but a ...

The IMPC: a new era in mouse genetics

Posted by , on 26 April 2012

The sophistication of genetic tools and the relative ease of breeding and housing mean that the mouse is the most widely used mammalian organism for basic and biomedical research. The ...

Photo-Morpholinos

Posted by , on 3 April 2012

In the study of the roles of genes during development, one problem that is often faced by researchers examining ‘late’ roles of genes is one of obscuration by temporal pleiotropy. ...

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