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Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research fully funded 4-year PhD studentship

Posted by , on 6 October 2026

The Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research (Loke CTR) offers fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships for home or overseas students The Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research (Loke CTR) provides a dynamic environment for ...

Tenure-track Assistant Professor — Developmental, Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology | UW–Madison

Posted by , on 23 September 2026

Job Category: Faculty Employment Type: Regular Job Profile: Assistant Professor Job Summary: The Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology in the School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) at the ...

Call for papers – Human Development

Posted by , on 7 September 2026

Development, host of the Node, invites you to submit your latest research to our upcoming Special Issue – Human Development.

The final stretch that tests every PhD Student 

Posted by , on 4 September 2026

The recent deluge of Substack and Medium articles, promising strategies and frameworks to work effectively and to complete tasks with intentionality, would have some to believe that the ‘P’ in PhD stands for “productivity” and not Philosophy. As if these neatly ...

Bytes don't lie: How a hidden space broke my single-cell pipeline

Posted by , on 3 September 2026

If you are a bioinformatician, you have probably come across this situation. You’re deep into a single-cell RNA sequencing analysis, preparing your object for downstream analysis. All that’s left is ...

The Experiments We Never Run

Posted by , on 1 September 2026

Somewhere, there’s a paper that will not get written. Before there’s a scientific paper, someone has to be there to ask the right question, design the right experiment, watch it ...

Assistant or Associate Professor of Cell Biology - University of Virginia School of Medicine

Posted by , on 1 September 2026

The Department of Cell Biology at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine invites applications for two tenure-eligible faculty positions on the Academic Investigator (AI) track with preference for ...

I don’t belong here: Thoughts of a first-generation academic

Posted by , on 25 August 2026

As a university student working towards my bachelor’s degree, I didn’t even know what it would mean to add “Dr.” to my name. Six months into my postdoc, I regularly ...

Revisiting metabolic fundamentals

Posted by , on 21 August 2026

In this post, Liliana Piñeros and Diego Sainz de la Maza report on the Workshop, 'Revisiting metabolic fundamentals'.

How does RNA keep the immune system in check? Two PDRA positions available in Renshaw Lab, Sheffield

Posted by , on 20 August 2026

Two Research Associate Posts – click here to see advert   A new interdisciplinary programme at the University of Sheffield is investigating how the RNA-binding protein ELAVL1 shapes neutrophil behaviour ...

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