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Posted by , on 24 April 2012

Registration deadlines: April 29 – Early registration and abstract submission deadline for the third meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED) April 30 – Registration deadline for ...
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A horse is a horse of course of course...

Posted by , on 24 April 2012

Unless it’s a Przewalski’s horse! Oh where to even start! The embryo collections came to completion on Wednesday, and now we are on to Phase II. We returned to Urumqi ...
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Has the academic spring sprung?

Posted by , on 23 April 2012

Two weeks ago the Guardian newspaper, the safe port of call for most left-leaning liberal academics in the UK, devoted its entire front page to the rise of open access ...
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In Development this week (Vol. 139, Issue 10)

Posted by , on 23 April 2012

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: A TOR de force in the haematopoietic niche During development and homeostasis, it is essential to coordinate growth with the ...
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Essay contest - Developments in development

Posted by , on 18 April 2012

Have you ever thought about the future of developmental biology? Over the past decades, developmental biology has changed a lot. We have different tools, do different types of experiments, collaborate ...
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Hazards of Field Work

Posted by , on 16 April 2012

Let’s start off this list with Pee. In. My. Face. The Chinese collector folks brought a big cage with a *ridiculous* number of 5-toed jerboas this morning. They are apparently ...
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The perils of language

Posted by , on 15 April 2012

Anyone who has known me for awhile probably knows that I really really despise carrots. Yes, I know. I am a freak. No one hates carrots. In my whole life ...
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Let's do the time warp...

Posted by , on 13 April 2012

I don’t even know where the last 72 hours went. Well, in fact I do. And it wasn’t spent sleeping. Since I now have 2 groups of people collecting for ...
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Stem cells at home

Posted by , on 12 April 2012

We depend on our own comfort zones to keep us grounded, and stem cells are no different.  A recent paper in Development describes how the adhesion that keeps a stem ...
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BSDB 2012

Posted by , on 12 April 2012

It’s been a crazy few months of travel for me, with conferences so far in Slovenia, Barcelona and Colorado. But while Coventry may not match these destinations for exoticism or ...
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