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Finding Fruit in Flies: Therapy for rare diseases #MetabolismMondays

Emerging perspectives in metabolism. This week we’ll meet Dr. Holly Thorpe.

SciArt profile: Queralt Tolosa

In this SciArt profile, we meet Queralt Tolosa, who has a background in biochemistry and developmental biology. After her PhD, she transitioned into being a freelance scientific illustrator and animator. ...

Because I had a long incubation time, I’m more resilient to the stress that comes with an academic career

No such thing as a standard career path – an interview with Eve Seuntjens

Regulating mRNA translation at the start

Madalena M. Reimão Pinto (Schier lab, University of Basel, Switzerland) and Sebastian Castillo Hair (Seelig lab, Washington University, Seattle, USA) joined forces to understand how zebrafish embryos orchestrate protein synthesis ...

‘Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals’ course is open for registration

Posted by CSCCE, on 5 June 2025

The Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE) has announced its next offering of Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF25F), which will run on Mondays and Thursdays beginning Thursday, 4 …

Squishing jellies!!

Posted by Yamini Ravichandran, on 4 June 2025

Behind the paper: “Topology changes of Hydra define actin orientation defects as organizers of morphogenesis”

Visualizing with Vibes: Potential and Pitfalls

Posted by Joachim Goedhart, on 2 June 2025

Anyone—regardless of coding skills—should be able to generate a publication-quality plot of their data in minutes. That was the main motivation to develop a series of web apps to make …

Switching Gears: Metabolic Rewiring in Cancer #MetabolismMondays

Posted by Shefali Shefali, on 2 June 2025

The world’s a metabolic dance & early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism This week, we explore the story of Dr. Luis Cedeno-Rosario, a postdoctoral researcher …

Regulating mRNA translation at the start

Posted by Madalena Pinto, on 30 May 2025

The Node Time Machine – May 2016

Posted by Joyce Yu, on 30 May 2025

At the end of each month, I pick the same month from a random year from the past 15 years of the Node, and take a look at what people …

Hybrid brains and the search for what makes us human

Posted by Caleb Gordon, on 28 May 2025

It lives. It lives! What lives, you may ask? Well, somewhere in a lab at Yale University, one young scientist has stuck human brain cells and chimp brain cells together …

Organoids Are Us 2025 is coming to Scotland. Register now!

Posted by Debora Bogani, on 28 May 2025

The MRC National Mouse Genetics Network, in collaboration with the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Scotland Institute, is organising Organoids Are Us 2025, a symposium that incorporates both basic and clinical/diagnostic …

Lipids and Labyrinths: The metabolic maze of mosquito-virus encounters #MetabolismMondays

Posted by Shefali Shefali, on 26 May 2025

All the world’s a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism This week we will meet Dr Cassandra Koh, who is a new faculty …

#DanioDigest (April 2025)

Posted by Kevin Thiessen, on 24 May 2025

An easily-consumable recap of the latest happenings in the #zebrafish community and beyond! Use these links below to get to the section you want: Community news Zebrafish careers Publications Preprints …

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