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Posted by Ian Velloso Randolph, on 4 September 2026
How is it possible that cnidarians evolved so many different ways to acomplish the same thing? Unipolar and multipolar ingression, invagination, delamination, epiboly… All the paths lead to ‘planula’ – ...Posted by Cherene de Bruyn, on 4 September 2026
The recent deluge of Substack and Medium articles, promising strategies and frameworks to work effectively and to complete tasks with intentionality, would have some to believe that the ‘P’ in PhD stands for “productivity” and not Philosophy. As if these neatly ...Posted by Anjaney Pandey, on 3 September 2026
If you have ever tried to set up Git and GitHub, you have probably run into a wall of cryptic errors. I certainly did when I was setting it up ...Posted by Vangeli Geshkovski, on 3 September 2026
How I started working on ULTRAPETALA1, the subject of a recent paper revealing how it influences plant development.Posted by Anjaney Pandey, on 3 September 2026
If you are a bioinformatician, you have probably come across this situation. You’re deep into a single-cell RNA sequencing analysis, preparing your object for downstream analysis. All that’s left is ...Posted by Alyssa Paparella, on 1 September 2026
Somewhere, there’s a paper that will not get written. Before there’s a scientific paper, someone has to be there to ask the right question, design the right experiment, watch it ...Posted by the Node, on 1 September 2026
Friedrich Bliem writes about how patterns function as an epistemic bridge between scientific, cognitive and artistic processes.Posted by Saurabh chand Sagar, on 1 September 2026
Small historic background: In an era when caspases are known as killer proteins, Drosophila Malpighian tubules state otherwise. Drosophila is a holometabolous insect, meaning that it goes through three life ...Posted by Julia Ibe, on 31 August 2026
Bioinformatics can seem intimidating, especially when you're just starting out. But you don't need to be an expert to begin exploring single-cell RNA-seq data. In this short tutorial, I walk ...Posted by Gwendolyn_Kirschner, on 26 August 2026
The International Symposium on Root Development (often referred to as the “Rooting” conference series) takes place every three years and unites developmental biology, agriculture, plant-pathogen interactions, and biotechnology – on plant roots! After it ...