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Nuclear sponges in embryonic stem cells

Posted by , on 17 June 2014

Once upon a time, physicists got curious about the cytoskeleton. They characterised the cytoskeleton – using tools of soft matter, statistical and polymer physics – as a mesoscale material whose ...

Of mice and zebrafish

Posted by , on 16 June 2014

This story starts with me shaking and nervous and stumbling through my mid-term thesis committee meeting presentation. Not only was I presenting the results from the first half of my ...

5 year Research Assistant position to study macrophage migration available

Posted by , on 13 June 2014

  A 5 year research assistant position to study regulation of macrophage migration in Drosophila is available in the Evans lab (Infection and Immunity/The Bateson Centre, University of Sheffield). The ...

An interview with Phil Ingham

Posted by , on 11 June 2014

This interview first appeared in Development. Philip Ingham is a geneticist and developmental biologist, based at the Imperial College, London – Nanyang Technological University, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore. From ...

Coordination Officer

Posted by , on 10 June 2014

Department/Location: Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute Salary: £28,132-£36,661 Reference: PS03564 Closing date: 22 July 2014 Limited funding: The funds for this post are available until ...

In Development this week (Vol. 141, Issue 12)

Posted by , on 10 June 2014

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Insights into familial dysautonomia Familial dysautonomia (FD) is a germline autosomal recessive disease that is characterized by impaired peripheral ...

Woods Hole images 2014 round 1- the winner

Posted by , on 10 June 2014

Time to announce the winner of this year’s first round of Woods Hole images: the fluorescent image of the squid embryo!     Many congratulations to Nathan Kenny (University of Oxford), Kathryn ...

Development Travelling Fellowship: a node connecting Woods Hole with the Stowers Institute

Posted by , on 10 June 2014

June 1st, 2014: Exactly one year after my departure flight from Bologna to Boston to attend the 2013 MBL Embryology course held at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, ...

Gastrulation: Local actions, global movements and self-organisation

Posted by , on 6 June 2014

Cells move in (still) mysterious ways to achieve morphogenesis. Prominently, cells of an early vertebrate embryo (blastula, a mass of undifferentiated cells) move extensively during gastrulation to generate the three ...

The PHD movie- support the sequel!

Posted by , on 6 June 2014

If you are doing a PhD (or involved in research in any way), you probably take a lot of humour, procrastination and comfort from PHD comics. The comic strip ‘Piled Higher ...

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