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Vote for your favourite image in the Node–FocalPlane image competition

Posted by , on 11 March 2025

Browse through the gallery of the 15 shortlisted images and vote for your favourite image by Wednesday 26 March.

PhD position: Enhancing ear drum repair by tracking endogenous stem cells

Posted by , on 7 March 2025

PhD funded by the RNID: Home student fees paid, plus stipend Tympanic membrane (ear drum) perforation (TMP) is a highly prevalent clinical problem. TMPs can result from physical trauma, pressure ...

3rd Crick Beddington Symposium: Somites get lost without Hox keeping time

Posted by , on 7 March 2025

The 3rd Crick-Beddington Symposium, in memory of Rosa Beddington FRS (1956-2001), took place on 10th-11th February at the Francis Crick Institute, London.

Fish, Frogs, Friends, Lend me your Ears.

Posted by , on 6 March 2025

Humans and other tetrapods evolved from aquatic fish. In making this leap, tetrapods evolved lungs to breathe air and lost respiratory gills. It is tempting to intuit that lungs evolved ...

Human brain development on a vacation island

Posted by , on 5 March 2025

The island of Capri, lying south of Naples and West of Sorrento, is an Italian vacation destination known for its exquisite views and extravagant luxury shopping. So, it may come ...

February in preprints

Posted by , on 4 March 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 ...

#DanioDigest (November 2024 thru January 2025)

Posted by , on 3 March 2025

An easily-consumable recap of the latest happenings in the #zebrafish community! Use these links below to get to the section you want: Community news Zebrafish careers Publications Preprints Reviews Protocols ...

ISSCR 2025 Annual Meeting: Where Scientific Discoveries, Biotech Innovations, and Clinical Breakthroughs Converge

Posted by , on 2 March 2025

The ISSCR Annual Meeting, taking place in Hong Kong on 11-14 June, is a gathering of the brightest minds in stem cell research and regenerative medicine across geographies and disciplines. ...

The Node Time Machine – February 2011

Posted by , on 27 February 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 ...

Are you the recipient of a Travelling Fellowship? Tell us your story

Posted by , on 27 February 2025

Did you know that The Company of Biologists’ journals –  Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology and Disease Models & Mechanisms – offer Travelling Fellowships to early-career researchers (graduate students and ...

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