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Posted by ERIN SLATERY, on 2 October 2025
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 ...Posted by Bethan, on 29 September 2025
Hopeful monsters. Morphospace. Mutation. Natural variation. Mutagenesis screens. Polymorphism. Deformity. Phenotype. Disease. Adaptation. Anomaly. Variant. Error. What defines the distinction between defect and difference? Between natural and unnatural? Between ...Posted by Olga Zueva, on 29 September 2025
Doctoral programs say they want the brightest, most creative, and motivated students. But once you enter, creativity often gets replaced by execution, independence by subordination, and discovery by survival. Why ...Posted by Laura Turchi, on 28 September 2025
A recent paper from Otsuki and colleagues investigates the molecular mechanisms driving limb regeneration in axolotlPosted by Sameer Thukral, on 27 September 2025
The Kahneman Chronicles #1: When a Nobel Laureate Fixed Our Lab’s Scheduling Disasters Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024) was a legendary psychologist who revolutionized our understanding of human decision-making and became known ...Posted by Sameer Thukral, on 24 September 2025
I’m a big fan of podcasts, and one of my favorites is Tim Harford’s “Cautionary Tales.” It tells true stories about disasters and what we can learn from them. One ...Posted by the Node, on 24 September 2025
Our ‘Featured resource’ series aims to shine a light on the resources that support our research – the unsung heroes of the science world. In this post, we learn about ...Posted by Shefali Shefali, on 23 September 2025
Behind the paper stories from “A genetically tractable non-vertebrate system to study complete camera-type eye regeneration“ We are all stepping into a story where evolution, development, and regeneration converge in ...Posted by Umaymah Ahmad, on 21 September 2025
When I attended my first networking event, I felt like I was sticking out like a sore thumb, but the thumb gets sorer and sorer and eventually the whole hand ...Posted by clabonne, on 18 September 2025
I work at Northwestern University where all of our NIH funding has been frozen since March. I am increasingly concerned that too few of my fellow scientists are paying enough ...