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The people behind the papers – Priyanka Govindaraju and Enrico Scarpella

Posted by , on 12 December 2020

This interview, the 84th in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  The veins are the vascular networks of plant leaves, functioning as channels for transport of signals and nutrients. ...

Preprint Community Manager (preLights)

Posted by , on 8 December 2020

preLights is a preprint highlighting service that is centred around a community of early-career researchers. Launched in 2018, this initiative has gained significant attention from researchers as well as the ...

Be the next Community Manager for preLights!

Posted by , on 8 December 2020

preLights, a preprint highlighting service that is centred around a team of early-career researchers, is looking for a new Community Manager. Launched in 2018, preLights has gained significant attention from ...

Remembering Kathryn Anderson and José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta

Posted by , on 7 December 2020

  We at the Node and Development were greatly saddened to hear about the recent death of Kathryn Anderson, Professor & Chair of the Developmental Biology Program at the Memorial ...

November in preprints

Posted by , on 4 December 2020

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

The people behind the papers – Olga Zaytseva and Leonie Quinn

Posted by , on 1 December 2020

This interview, the 83rd in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  Unregulated cell proliferation can be disastrous for development and underlies the progression of cancers throughout the lifespan. A ...

Development presents... December webinar on plant development

Posted by , on 30 November 2020

Videos of the talks and Q&As can now be found here!     We’re happy to confirm the next in our Development presents… webinar series will be chaired by our ...

An interview with Dawei Sun

Posted by , on 24 November 2020

  Dawei Sun has just finished his PhD in Dr Emma Rawlins’ lab at The Gurdon Institute here in Cambridge, UK. He has remained in the city with his wife ...

The people behind the papers – Agnes Cheong and Jesse Mager

Posted by , on 21 November 2020

This interview, the 82nd in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  Nuclear-encoded mitochondrial ribosomal proteins (MRPs) are crucial for mitochondrial function and hence cellular energy production. A new paper ...

Paul S. Burgoyne (1946-2020)

Posted by , on 18 November 2020

This Obituary by James M. A. Turner, Shantha K. Mahadevaiah, Arthur P. Arnold and Robin Lovell-Badge was recently published in Development.      Paul Burgoyne was an outstanding mouse geneticist ...

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