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Hello from Alex (reprise)

Posted by , on 13 May 2025

About 6.5 years ago now, I wrote my first post for the Node, ‘Hello from Alex‘, introducing myself as a new Reviews Editor for Development. I was thrilled by the ...

Biologists @ 100: a blueprint for interdisciplinary meetings

Posted by , on 12 May 2025

I was excited to be in Liverpool for the Biologists @ 100 meeting this past March. Not only is a meeting organised by The Company of Biologists always guaranteed to ...

From Shifting Skies to Toxic Tides: A Tale of Flies & Flux #MetabolismMondays

Posted by , on 12 May 2025

All the world’s a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism This week we will get to know insights from Dr. Lautaro Gandara, who ...

Nano Injections, Big Discoveries: The Journey to Map Neural and Inner Ear Lineages

Posted by , on 8 May 2025

Co-authored by Sandra de Haan and Jingyan He In our recently published paper ‘Ectoderm barcoding reveals neural and cochlear compartmentalization‘, we utilized ultrasound-guided in utero nano injections to deliver heritable DNA barcodes ...

The end of an era

Posted by , on 6 May 2025

As you may have seen in an earlier post, I’m moving on from Development after 13+ years as the journal’s Executive Editor. The good news (for me at least!) is ...

April in preprints

Posted by , on 6 May 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 ...

Featured image with Özge Özgüç: the Node–FocalPlane image competition

Posted by , on 6 May 2025

We find out more about the story behind Özge Özgüç’s image, which was the winner of the competition.

The Fat of the Matter: To know a fly, To know ourselves #MetabolismMondays

Posted by , on 5 May 2025

All the world’s a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism This week, we delve into the story of Dr. Lianna W. Watt, a ...

When did our flexible and lubricated joints evolve?

Posted by , on 30 April 2025

[Behind the paper story of “Synovial joints were present in the common ancestor of jawed fish but lacking in jawless fish”.] Synovial joints are marvels of biological evolution where two ...

Research Assistant in Cardiovascular Medicine

Posted by , on 30 April 2025

This position is for a talented and enthusiastic research assistant to work on a British Heart Foundation funded project focusing on the investigation of the molecular determinants of epicardial epithelial-to-mesenchymal ...

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