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Research Strategy and Communication Manager

Posted by , on 22 December 2016

Department/Location: Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge Salary: £34,956-£46,924 Reference: PS11055 Closing date: 22 January 2017 Applications are invited for the position of ...

Dynamic new roles for local RNA regulation in neural stem cells of the developing brain

Posted by , on 22 December 2016

Debby Silver and Louis-Jan Pilaz Comment on Pilaz, at al. Current Biology. 26(24): 3383-3392   Neurons and glia of the developing brain are produced from an elegant cell cell type called radial ...

Pluripotent Stem Cell Platform Research Associate

Posted by , on 21 December 2016

Department/Location: Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge Salary: £29,301-£38,183 Reference: PS11020 Closing date: 18 January 2017 Fixed-term: The funds for this post are ...

The people behind the papers: Andrew Schiffmacher & Lisa Taneyhill

Posted by , on 16 December 2016

The neural crest is a remarkable multipotent cell population that has become a model system for how epithelial cells become mesenchymal and migrate during development. In today’s post, we feature ...

The people behind the papers: Fernando Ferreira & Min Zhao

Posted by , on 14 December 2016

Today’s paper comes from the final issue of Development for 2016, and reveals a link between bioelectricity and reactive oxygen species during tail regeneration in Xenopus. We caught up with first author ...

LabCIRS - Learning from mistakes

Posted by , on 13 December 2016

Biomedical research is experiencing what has been termed a ‘reproducibility crisis’. There is much talk about how we can improve the rigor and robustness of our research to increase its ...

Public Engagement Manager

Posted by , on 8 December 2016

Department/Location: Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge Salary: £29,301-£38,183 Reference: PS10876 Closing date: 08 January 2017 Fixed-term: The funds for this post are ...

This month on the Node and beyond

Posted by , on 5 December 2016

November turned out to be  a bumper month on the Node with posts on research (current and historical), meetings and new resources, as well as interviews and a meeting report. Plus some ...

From our sister journals - November 2016

Posted by , on 2 December 2016

Here we highlight some developmental biology related content from other journals published by The Company of Biologists.   Chisato Kitazawa and colleagues uncover diversity in the morphological changes of early embryogenesis in ...

November in preprints

Posted by , on 2 December 2016

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

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