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SciArt profile: Henning Falk

Posted by , on 17 June 2025

In this SciArt profile, we find out more about Henning Falk, who did a PhD in developmental biology, and now enjoys creating science-related cartoons as a freelancer.

On the Shape of Life: meeting report, SFBD meeting 2025

Posted by , on 15 June 2025

Recently, I attended ‘Shaping Life 3’, the quadrennial meeting of the French Society of Developmental Biology (SFBD). The first of these meetings happened in 2016: that’s where my current PI ...

The Season's Script: Tales of Metabolic adaptation #MetabolismMondays

Posted by , on 9 June 2025

All the world’s a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism This week we’ll meet Dr Karin Van der Burg, a new faculty at ...

May in preprints

Posted by , on 9 June 2025

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv – use these links below to get to ...

Unfinished story: How events during development affect adult behaviour

Posted by , on 6 June 2025

Many times, the project or PhD is over, and the paper published, and yet the story unfinished. During the course of PhD, there arise many mysterious observations and unanswered questions.  ...

Squishing jellies!!

Posted by , 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 , on 2 June 2025

Joachim Goedhart compares data visualization using web-based apps versus genAI-based tools.

Switching Gears: Metabolic Rewiring in Cancer #MetabolismMondays

Posted by , on 2 June 2025

This week, we explore the story of Dr. Luis Cedeno-Rosario, a postdoctoral researcher in the Rutter Lab at the University of Utah.

Regulating mRNA translation at the start

Posted by , on 30 May 2025

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 ...

The Node Time Machine – May 2016

Posted by , 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 ...

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