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A day in the life of an embryonic stem cell lab!

Posted by , on 5 February 2016

Hi everyone! I’m Helena. Some of you may know me as the current intern here at the Node, but next week, I will go back to Alfonso Martínez Arias’ lab ...

3 year post-doctoral position in quantitative imaging of live embryos

Posted by , on 5 February 2016

We have an offering an exciting post-doctoral opportunity to image and quantitatively analyse tiny transparent ascidian embryos with a brand new multi view light sheet microscope. Apply now!

Pluripotency in the mouse and beyond…

Posted by , on 4 February 2016

Preimplantation development establishes the founding cell population of the adult mammal in the epiblast. This naïve pluripotent state employs a unique hand of transcription factors to ensure epigenetic resetting and ...

Woods Hole images 2014 round 1- the winner

Posted by , on 4 February 2016

And the winner of the latest round of images from the Woods Hole embryology course is… the short-tailed fruit bat embryo!   Here are the full results: – Pig embryo: ...

another attempt to widen access

Posted by , on 3 February 2016

Sorry for all the messing about, but there are now a number of ways of accessing  my latest polemic which is called The last 50 years: mismeasurement and mismanagement are ...

Interdisciplinary PhD Program on Quantitative Biology, Marseille France

Posted by , on 3 February 2016

PhD Program on Quantitative Biology – Open call: LabEx inform is a interdisciplinary and international research consortium on Quantitative Biology of Signaling, in Marseille, France (http://labex-inform.com/). LabEx INFORM has its ...

Using the mouse to model human disease: increasing validity and reproducibility

Posted by , on 3 February 2016

This editorial by Monica J. Justice and Paraminder Dhillon was first published in Disease Models & Mechanisms.   ABSTRACT Experiments that use the mouse as a model for disease have recently ...

Postdoctoral position, Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Harvard Medical School.

Posted by , on 3 February 2016

Postdoctoral position to study organogenesis and regeneration using the mouse hair follicle as a model system. The Morgan lab exploits genetically engineered mice to study the role of the mesenchyme ...

Postdoctoral Research Associate position in Cell Biology of Neuronal Differentiation - University of Manchester

Posted by , on 3 February 2016

Applications are invited for a highly motivated post-doctoral research associate to join the laboratory of Dr Raman Das in the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK. ...

Green Glow the Salamanders

Posted by , on 3 February 2016

This is an terrific Shelf Life video made by Erin Chapman at the American Museum of Natural History. It features our work on a symbiosis between the classic model salamander Ambystoma maculatum and its ...

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