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Celebrating 100 years of The Company of Biologists
Posted by Alex Eve, on 14 January 2025
Happy New Year, everyone. 2025 is a big year for us at The Company of Biologists, marking 100 years since the Company was founded. We’re using this opportunity to reflect …Winding road to the cambial stem cells
Posted by Ari Pekka Mähönen, on 13 January 2025
In plants, the vascular cambium, a bifacial stem cell niche, drives wood formation by generating the xylem on one side and the phloem on the other. In this post, Ari …Second Symposium on Women in Tunicate Biology: March 25-26, 2025
Posted by Marie Nydam, on 10 January 2025
Dear Colleagues,Happy New Year! Two years ago, we organized the inaugural symposium dedicated to Women in Tunicate Biology. It was a joyful event, celebrating women scientists from the 19th century …Biological Research Trump Cards: from fruit flies to stem cells… who will come out on top?
Posted by Jo Sharpe, on 6 January 2025
In 2023 I was awarded a NC3Rs 20th Anniversary Public Engagement Award to develop and print a “Biological Research Trump Cards” game. I have now designed and printed 100 packs …December in preprints
Posted by the Node, on 3 January 2025
Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv – use these links below to …Announcement of a new evo-devo book, Evolution Evolving
Posted by Scott Gilbert, on 2 January 2025
Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity Kevin H. Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus W. Feldman and Scott F. Gilbert Princeton University Press, 2024. evolutionevolving.org. Some of …Genetics Society – Communicating Your Science workshop
Posted by the Node, on 31 December 2024
The application deadline for the workshop is the 24th of January. This is a residential workshop at Chicheley Hall on 2nd- 4th April 2025. An important part of science is getting your …2024: that’s a wrap!
Posted by the Node, on 28 December 2024
With almost 200 posts published on the Node in 2024, below are just a few of our highlights. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Node in the …The Node Network
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Most-read posts in December
- Behind the paper: “Temporal variability and cell mechanics control robustness in mammalian embryogenesis” by Bernat Corominas-Murtra
- Peer review – why we need it and what we need by Katherine Brown
- No such thing as a standard career path
- The mechanics of crocodile head scale development by Rory L. Cooper, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh & Michel C. Milinkovitch
- Featured Resource: Gene Expression Database (GXD)
- Lab meeting with the Hirashima lab
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