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The people behind the papers - Kana Ishimatsu, Tom Hiscock & Sean Megason

Posted by , on 12 June 2018

Somites are segmented structures  which give rise to numerous tissues in the vertebrate body. It has long been observed that somites scale in size with the overall size of the ...

Call for new preLighters

Posted by , on 6 June 2018

preLights, The Company of Biologist’s new preprint highlighting service, has now been running for more than three months. At the heart of preLights is the community of early-career researchers who ...

Rare is Everywhere

Posted by , on 5 June 2018

The story behind FOXL1+ telocytes You can find our recently published Nature paper here   Our story began two decades ago when my mentor, Klaus H. Kaestner, identified and cloned ...

Evolution of Sensation, 6th GOEvol Meeting - Registration until July 15th 2018!

Posted by , on 4 June 2018

Dear Colleagues and students, the GOEvol consortium proudly presents its 6th meeting #Sensation @GOEEvolution 2018 taking place in Göttingen from September 27th to 28th 2018. The perception of environmental stimuli, ...

May in preprints

Posted by , on 1 June 2018

Welcome to our monthly trawl for preprints in developmental biology (plus those hopefully relevant for developmental biologists). May featured the usual catch of fascinating and beautiful work across the spectrum ...

The people behind the papers - Pauline Anne & Christian Hardtke

Posted by , on 25 May 2018

Short CLE peptides regulate a wide variety of processes during plant development. In the developing root, the receptors and co-receptors for CLEs have remained largely unclear, as have the relationships ...

The story of my PhD…

Posted by , on 25 May 2018

(Chapter II – The Travelling Fellowship)   Hi! My name is André Dias and I am a PhD student in Portugal. I work in a wonderful institute called Instituto Gulbenkian ...

A long (microbial) journey…

Posted by , on 24 May 2018

In this post, Prof. Genoveva F. Esteban (Bournemouth University) goes hunting for protozoa at a Company of Biologists Workshop   This is the story of a journey that started a few ...

Vote for a Development cover from the Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology

Posted by , on 23 May 2018

***We have a winner: go to https://thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-a-development-cover-we-have-a-winner/photo/***     In January, students from across the Americas gathered in Chile to participate in the International Course on Developmental Biology, an EMBO ...

The people behind the papers - Cathy Pichol-Thievend, Natasha Harvey & Mathias Francois

Posted by , on 22 May 2018

The vertebrate lymphatic vascular network provides crucial circulatory and immune functions but its developmental origin has been a contentious issue, in particular the question of whether lymphatic endothelial cells have ...

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