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July in preprints
Posted by the Node, on 12 August 2025
Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv.Could you be the Node’s next Community Manager?
Posted by Alex Eve, on 12 August 2025
The Company of Biologists is recruiting a new Community Manager for the Node – a community site hosted by Development for developmental and stem cell biologists. Why are we hiring? …Link between autism and heart defects offers hope for early autism diagnosis
Posted by Joyce Yu, on 6 August 2025
Press release from Development on the Research Report Ciliary biology intersects autism and congenital heart disease Summary: It is difficult to predict whether newborns will develop autism, but autism can …ISSCR PSC-Derived Therapies Symposium: Explore Cell Therapy Development, Starting with the Patient in Mind
Posted by Hunter Reed, on 5 August 2025
Join stem cell, gene, and regenerative medicine researchers, manufacturers, and patient representatives in Boston, USA on 11-12 December 2025 for a program focused on developing the next generation of technologies …FlyCROSS 2025–26: Call for Drosophila early career scientists
Posted by Shefali Shefali, on 1 August 2025
Do not miss this call for mentees from the Drosophila community. The Fly Board is excited to announce the second cycle of FlyCROSS (2025–2026). The goal of FlyCROSS is to …The Node Time Machine – July 2013
Posted by Joyce Yu, on 31 July 2025
At the end of each month, I pick the same month from a random year from the past 15 years of the Node, and take a look at what people …Development presents… stem cells and organoids
Posted by the Node, on 30 July 2025
Talks from three researchers working on stem cells and organoids.InSDB-ISD Joint Meeting 2025
Posted by Indian Society of Developmental Biologists ., on 28 July 2025
The Indian Society of Developmental Biologists (InSDB) is hosting our 2025 meeting from December 14–17 at IISER Berhampur. This year will be a joint meeting with the International Society for …The Node at 15 – Then and now with Helena Jambor
Posted by the Node, on 23 July 2025
The Node is 15 years old this year! We thought it’d be fun to get in touch with prolific authors of the Node over the past 15 years, revisit the …Between Molecules and Milestones: Tales from Seattle to Heidelberg for grad school
Posted by Shefali Shefali, on 21 July 2025
We pick up where we left off with Anna-Lena Vigil, now a PhD candidate in the Crocker Group at EMBL, as her journey unfolds to moments beyond the bench that …Subscribe to our mailing list
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Most-read posts in June
- From Posters to Parades: Inside Woodstock.Bio² & Night Science Conference by Natanella Eliaz
- Visualizing with Vibes: Potential and Pitfalls by Joachim Goedhart
- Cellular Worlds – An Art Exhibition Inspired by Microscopic Universes
- On the Shape of Life: meeting report, SFBD meeting 2025 by Girish Kale
- #DanioDigest (May 2025) by Kevin Thiessen
- Squishing jellies!! by Yamini Ravichandran
- Lab meeting with the Silveira Lab
- SciArt profile: Henning Falk
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