Posted by Seema Grewal, on 12 October 2010
Here are the research highlights from the current issue of Development: Oct1: essential for trophoblast development Most POU family transcription factors are temporally and spatially restricted during development and play ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 7 October 2010
The FASEB Excellence in Science Award is awarded annually to a woman whose research has made an exceptional contribution to the field of biological sciences. In 2011, this award will ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 7 October 2010
In the US, basic plant research is relatively underfunded compared to other fields, with most of the available money going directly towards the development of practical agricultural applications. Last year, ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 6 October 2010
Hello to all of you Node readers! My name is Erin Campbell and I’m the blogger behind HighMag Blog, a blog that features cell biology images a few times a ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 4 October 2010
Robert Edwards has just been announced as winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on in vitro fertilization (IVF) We speculated about the winners ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 1 October 2010
In an attempt to tighten the country’s budget, the UK government wants to cut a large number of arms-length non-governmental organisations. These “quangos” (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations) include regulatory bodies, advisory ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 30 September 2010
(This interview originally appeared in Development on September 28, 2010) The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) held their annual conference in San Francisco this June. At the time, ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 28 September 2010
A fateful look at early mouse lineage specification The first cell lineages specified in the mouse embryo are the trophectoderm (TE), which generates the embryonic portion of the placenta, and ...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 Eva Amsen, on 23 September 2010
Thomson Reuters has predicted who they think will walk away with the Nobel Prizes in medicine, chemistry, physics, and economics. Their predictions for the prize for Physiology or Medicine include ...