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Posted by Eva Amsen, on 30 December 2010
Each year in early December, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute hosts a series of educational seminars, called the Holiday Lectures, in which researchers explain the very basic concepts of their ...Posted by Heather, on 16 December 2010
Webcasting is a new art that is still being perfected, but which holds great promise for scientific collaboration at both small and large scales.Posted by Christian Mosimann, on 7 December 2010
The Node’s staff has kindly asked me to write a little “behind the scenes” on our zebrafish paper released today in Development, “Ubiquitous transgene expression and Cre-based recombination driven by ...Posted by Heather, on 2 November 2010
Who wants to reinvent the wheel? Resources for finding or judging the worth of PCR primers, particularly for quantitation or amplification of cDNA.Posted by kyook, on 29 October 2010
WormBase — wormbase.org — is the central data repository for Caenorhabditis elegans and related nematodes. C. elegans is a well-known system for studying problems in developmental biology, the benefits of ...Posted by Dave Gilbert, on 26 October 2010
ReplicationDomain is an online database resource for storing, sharing and visualizing DNA replication timing and transcription data, as well as other numerical epigenetic data types. Data is typically obtained from ...Posted by Kim Cooper, on 24 October 2010
My apologies for the lag in updates from field collections in China. I got a little distracted with submitting a paper and writing a K99/R00 that seem to have consumed ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 18 October 2010
From Arabidopsis to zebrafish, every species –living and extinct – is linked to every other species. Not just metaphorically, but also literally on the Tree of Life website, which ambitiously ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 27 September 2010
A recent paper in PNAS describes the development of MiniPromoters: human DNA promoters of less than 4 kb, designed to drive gene expression in specific areas of the brain. The ...Posted by the Node, on 14 July 2010
The Node has been officially live for almost four weeks now, and we’ve seen visitor numbers and registrations go steadily up. As with most websites, there are far more silent ...