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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 ...

Hybrid brains and the search for what makes us human

Posted by , on 28 May 2025

It lives. It lives! What lives, you may ask? Well, somewhere in a lab at Yale University, one young scientist has stuck human brain cells and chimp brain cells together ...

Organoids Are Us 2025 is coming to Scotland. Register now!

Posted by , on 28 May 2025

The MRC National Mouse Genetics Network, in collaboration with the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Scotland Institute, is organising Organoids Are Us 2025, a symposium that incorporates both basic and clinical/diagnostic ...

Lipids and Labyrinths: The metabolic maze of mosquito-virus encounters #MetabolismMondays

Posted by , on 26 May 2025

All the world’s a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism This week we will meet Dr Cassandra Koh, who is a new faculty ...

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