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Postdoctoral position - Quantitative developmental biology - Zebrafish

Posted by , on 11 December 2018

We are seeking outstanding postdoctoral candidates to join the Campas lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Our group uses interdisciplinary and quantitative approaches to study the formation of ...

PhD Position / Cell Biology of Organ Regeneration

Posted by , on 10 December 2018

We are seeking independent, passionate and creative students to join the López-Schier group at the Helmholtz Zentrum in Neuherberg/Munich, Germany. The position is to work, at either experimental or theoretical level, ...

A day in the life of a Kabuto-mushi (rhinoceros beetle) lab

Posted by , on 10 December 2018

I am Shinichi Morita, a postdoctoral researcher in Teruyuki Niimi’s lab at the National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan (Fig. 1A, B). Our research interests focus on the evolutionary novelties ...

Laboratory Research Scientist

Posted by , on 6 December 2018

Job title:           Laboratory Research Scientists Location:         The Francis Crick Institute, Midland Road, London Contract:          Fixed-term, (3-4 months) Full time Salary: ...

The people behind the papers – Chaitanya Dingare and Virginie Lecaudey

Posted by , on 5 December 2018

This interview, the 52nd in our series, was the first to be published in Development. We’re aiming for one interview per issue, and will continue to put them up here ...

November in preprints

Posted by , on 4 December 2018

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  This month’s haul includes a potful of plant development, new ways to mend broken hearts, an Alexa in the ...

The reported birth of CRISPR-edited humans: reactions from the field

Posted by , on 29 November 2018

One scientific story has dominated the news this week: the first report of CRISPR-edited human babies being born. In an associated Node post, we’ve collected the most useful links we ...

The reported birth of CRISPR-edited humans: useful links

Posted by , on 29 November 2018

One scientific story has dominated the news this week: the first report of CRISPR-edited human babies being born. The story’s scientific and ethical aspects stirred up heated debate, as did ...

Immature Cells Zap Around Before Settling Down

Posted by , on 28 November 2018

The story is based on the paper Mechanosignalling via integrins directs fate decisions of pancreatic progenitors, published in Nature, 28 November 2018 Stem cells are already being used in combating previously untreatable ...

A scientific face for the fifty

Posted by , on 28 November 2018

Here at The Company of Biologists we’ve been debating the Bank of England’s decision to put a scientist on their new £50 note (the highest denomination note in England). The scientist ...

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