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What do sperm have to do with brain tumors?

Posted by , on 2 October 2014

  This post was originally published in the Knoepfler Lab Stem Cell Blog.      Sometimes in science there are unexpected threads tying seemingly very different things together. Unraveling the ...

This month on the Node- September 2014

Posted by , on 1 October 2014

Here are some of the highlights for September:   Research: – Sylvain discussed his recent Development paper on the tristable regulatory network behind cell fate decisions in the early embryo. – Aryeh wrote about ...

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The Funding of Research

Posted by , on 1 October 2014

This is the last of four posts relating to the Future of Research symposium which was announced in a previous blog post. Each of these posts will discuss a topic ...

“Smells Like Development” - The 73rd Society for Developmental Biology Meeting

Posted by , on 30 September 2014

Hosted in beautiful Seattle, the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) held its 73rd Annual Meeting on the University of Washington campus in (mostly) sunny July. Here researchers from around the ...

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Metrics: The Folly of Hoping for X whilst Rewarding Y

Posted by , on 29 September 2014

This is the third of four posts relating to the Future of Research symposium which was announced in a previous blog post. Each of these posts will discuss a topic ...

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The Structure of the Workforce

Posted by , on 25 September 2014

This is the second of four posts relating to the Future of Research symposium which was announced in a previous blog post. Each of these posts will discuss a topic ...

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How Scientists are Trained

Posted by , on 23 September 2014

This is the first of four posts relating to the Future of Research symposium which was announced in a previous blog post. Each of these posts will discuss a topic ...

This month on the Node- August 2014

Posted by , on 1 September 2014

Here are last month’s highlights! Don’t forget to check our jobs page too.   Research: – Gary wrote about his visit to a particle accelerator to image Xenopus embry0s using X-rays. – ...

Postdoctoral fellowship in neural stem cell and developmental neurobiology

Posted by , on 24 August 2014

The Division of Developmental Biology and Neuroscience along with Pediatric Neurosurgery at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital (#3 children’s hospital in USA) have openings in Dr Tim Vogel’s lab for postdoctoral Research ...

(Developmental) Biology around the internet- August 2014

Posted by , on 15 August 2014

Here is August’s round-up of some of the interesting content that we spotted around the internet:   News & Research: – An interesting article considers the impact of the Great ...

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