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Stem cells crossing boundaries

Posted by , on 16 May 2013

For most of us, we don’t all end up settled as adults in the same town where we were born.  The same is true for many cells, including some stem ...

A Taste of Stem Cells

Posted by , on 16 May 2013

Continuous supply of mature differentiated cells by adult stem cells is required in most of adult tissues especially those with rapid turnover rates. In recent years, using advanced cell biological ...

Enter the EuroStemCell non-fiction writing competition!

Posted by , on 15 May 2013

Spring has sprung! The sun is out at last (sort of), but that’s not the only great news we’ve got from EuroStemCell: we’ve launched our first ever stem cell non-fiction writing ...

Bullying in the lab

Posted by , on 14 May 2013

The lab can be one of the greatest places in the world to make live long friends. Spending countless hours in a tissue culture room late into the middle of ...

The Node new community manager!

Posted by , on 14 May 2013

Hi! My name is Cat and I am the new Community Manager here at The Node. I am originally from Portugal, but moved to the UK to study a long time ago ...

In Development this week (Vol. 140, Issue 11)

Posted by , on 14 May 2013

Here are the highlights from the new issue of Development:   Sniffing out sensory maps The development of sensory maps – neural representations of the sense organs – involves the ...

Group Leader PS01223

Posted by , on 13 May 2013

Department: Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QR Salary: £37,382 – £63,535 Closing Date: 1st July 2013 The Wellcome Trust ...

Senior Technician PS01219

Posted by , on 10 May 2013

Department: Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QR Based at: Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge, West ...

Woods Hole Images round 2 - vote for a Development cover

Posted by , on 1 May 2013

Back in February, you voted on the first set of beautiful images taken by last year’s Woods Hole Embryology Course students, and this confocal picture of a mouse embryo appeared ...

This month on the Node: April

Posted by , on 30 April 2013

Again, things have been busy on the Node this month and, as well as the usual flurry of job adverts, we’ve had some great research- and meeting-based posts. Below are ...

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