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Development: Special Issue on Human Development

Posted by , on 3 November 2014

As we’ve reported elsewhere on the Node (here and here), we recently held a very successful meeting ‘From Stem Cells to Human Development‘. As a direct result of the enthusiasm ...

This month on the Node- October 2014

Posted by , on 3 November 2014

Here are some of the highlights for October. Don’t forget to also check our jobs page, were several new positions were advertised this month!   Research: – Shusei wrote about ...

Group Leader (Senior Research Associate)

Posted by , on 3 November 2014

The Gurdon Institute is a world-renowned centre in the fields of developmental, cell, and cancer biology, located in the heart of the historic city of Cambridge, and part of the ...

Fanfare for The Company of Biologists

Posted by , on 2 November 2014

Dear friends and members of The Company of Biologists, About a year ago, I was asked to organize the Physiology Symposium of the 6th EurBee Conference in Murcia/Spain, held by ...

Tissue-specific genome editing in Ciona embryos by CRISPR/Cas9

Posted by , on 31 October 2014

Researchers have always been interested in tissue-specific loss of function to probe the role of specific genes in embryonic development, cell physiology and disease conditions. Migration of lateral plate primordial ...

A day in the life of a shark lab

Posted by , on 31 October 2014

Hi! I am Nuria, a PhD student. I work in the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Our group, the BRAINSHARK group, has been ...

A mechanism that allows a differentiated cell to reactivate as a stem cell revealed

Posted by , on 29 October 2014

The study, performed with fruit flies, describes a gene that determines whether a specialized cell conserves the capacity to become a stem cell again. Unveiling the genetic traits that favour ...

Barcelona BioMed Conference: Drosophila as a model in cancer (15 Jun 2015 to 17 Jun 2015)

Posted by , on 29 October 2014

Barcelona BioMed Conference: Drosophila as a model in cancer 15 – 17 Jun 2015 Cancer is a multi-hit process involving mutations in oncogenes and tumour suppressors, as well as interactions between the ...

4 Yr PhD Programme in Developmental Mechanisms

Posted by , on 27 October 2014

Applications are open for the Wellcome Trust funded four year PhD programme in Developmental Mechanisms at Cambridge. We are looking for talented, motivated graduates or final year undergraduates, and are ...

Biology and maths partner to understand life decisions

Posted by , on 26 October 2014

Starting with the one fertilized egg that we all once were, embryonic development is made of cell divisions and most importantly of cell decisions. These first life decisions are the ...

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