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A day in the life of a modern Lernaean Hydra…

Posted by , on 3 July 2017

I am Eleni Chrysostomou, a PhD student in Uri Frank‘s lab at the National University of Ireland, Galway. The Frank lab’s general interest is development and regeneration, stem and germ ...

Photo Contest

Posted by , on 21 June 2017

Hello everyone!! My name is Nadia Edelsztein and I am a PhD student from Argentina working in the Reproductive and Development field! I am addressing you all to ask for ...

NIH launches competition to develop human eye tissue in a dish

Posted by , on 21 June 2017

3-D Retina Organoid Challenge to spur breakthroughs in treating blinding diseases The National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has opened the first stage of a ...

Multiple stem cells, population asymmetry and position-dependent heterogeneity emerge as common features of a niche for Drosophila Follicle Stem Cells and mammalian Intestinal Stem Cells

Posted by , on 16 June 2017

A discussion of “Alternative direct stem cell derivatives defined by stem cell location and graded Wnt signalling,” Nat Cell Biol, 2017. 19(5): p. 433-444.   We have recently revised the model ...

Getting to know us - an article about the Node and social media

Posted by , on 15 June 2017

Last year we were approached by Andreas Prokop of The University of Manchester (who is also Communications Officer of the British Society for Developmental Biology), with an offer to write a ...

The people behind the papers: Lijun Chi and Paul Delgado-Olguin

Posted by , on 9 June 2017

Development of the placental vasculature – known as the labyrinth – is critical for foetal development. Today’s paper comes from the most recent issue of Development and addresses the signalling events ...

2017 MBL Embryology Course underway at Woods Hole!

Posted by , on 8 June 2017

Today marks Day 3 of the Embryology: Concepts & Techniques in Modern Developmental Biology course (http://www.mbl.edu/education/courses/embryology/) at the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole, MA (http://www.mbl.edu/). 24 students along with ...

An interview with Hiroshi Hamada

Posted by , on 5 June 2017

This interview by Katherine Brown first appeared in Development, Volume 144, Issue 11. Hiroshi Hamada is the Director of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, Japan. His lab ...

May in preprints

Posted by , on 5 June 2017

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. See last year’s introductory post for background, and let us know if we missed anything This month featured a host ...

One week left to register to the Developmental Biology Gordon Research Conference

Posted by , on 30 May 2017

The programme (http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=11170) covers a wide a range of exciting subjects such gene regulatory networks, mechanics, stem cells, regeneration, organoids, and evolution. The conference will be preceded by a two-day ...

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