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Minipigs get stem cell transplants to treat blindness
Posted by Joyce Yu, on 20 December 2024
PRESS RELEASE: Millions of people around the world are affected by retinal degenerative diseases. In most cases, loss of vision is caused by damage to the macula, a region in …Become a Node correspondent
Posted by the Node, on 17 December 2024
Enthusiastic about science communication and looking for a chance to broaden your writing experience alongside your research activities? We would like to appoint three correspondents who will play a key …Peer review – why we need it and what we need
Posted by Katherine Brown, on 16 December 2024
Hopefully some of you will have seen the recent editorial in Development on our approach to peer review. If you haven’t read it yet, please do take a look. In …Behind the paper: “Temporal variability and cell mechanics control robustness in mammalian embryogenesis”
Posted by Bernat Corominas-Murtra, on 15 December 2024
The massive presence of disorder and variability challenges the traditional metaphor of the developmental process as a perfectly executed program leading to precise mechanisms at every level [1,2]. Yet, the …The mechanics of crocodile head scale development
Posted by Michel Milinkovitch, on 11 December 2024
Rory L. Cooper, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh & Michel C. Milinkovitch Laboratory of Artificial and Natural Evolution (LANE), Geneva, Switzerlandhttps://www.lanevol.org From the hard, protective scales of reptiles to the soft, insulating fur …November in preprints
Posted by the Node, on 10 December 2024
Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv – use these links below to get to …Featured Resource: Gene Expression Database (GXD)
Posted by the Node, on 5 December 2024
Find out more about the Gene Expression Database (GXD), a community resource that collects and integrates mouse gene expression data generated by biomedical researchers worldwide.Join us at the Biologists @ 100 conference early-career researcher event
Posted by the Node, on 4 December 2024
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Most-read posts in November
- Please, show me your boundaries by Irene Karapidaki, Béryl Laplace-Builhé and Michalis Averof
- New PI diaries: Taking Stock and Figuring Out Lab Finances by Margot Smit
- No such thing as a standard career path
- Reverse development in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi by Joan-Josep Soto Angel and Pawel Burkhardt
- Don’t eat me!! by Cecilia Pessoa
- Behind the paper: A transcriptomic hourglass in brown algae by Jaruwatana Sodai Lotharukpong
- The SEBD turns 30 years old! by Sociedad Española Biologia Desarrollo
- Trans Perspectives in Academia
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