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The BSDB Beddington Medal Winner 2017: Erik Clark

Posted by , on 11 April 2017

The Beddington Medal is the BSDB’s major commendation to promising young biologists, awarded for the best PhD thesis in Developmental Biology defended in the year previous to the award. Rosa ...

Medal & Award winners at the 2017 BSCB/BSDB/Gen Soc Spring Meeting

Posted by , on 11 April 2017

As every year, the Spring meeting was the time of awards and medals! This year, we had awardees of three societies who are listed below. For those wanting to have ...

The people behind the papers: Dae Seok Eom & David Parichy

Posted by , on 7 April 2017

Macrophages are usually associated with immunity, but have increasingly appreciated functions in development and homeostasis. This week we meet the authors of a recent Science paper that identified a role ...

March in preprints

Posted by , on 6 April 2017

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 March was (yet) another bumper month ...

Shaping Snapdragons

Posted by , on 4 April 2017

Have you ever wondered what makes the shapes in the animal and plant kingdom so different? We take for granted the diversity of natural shapes that surround us, from a ...

Vote for a Development cover - Woods Hole Images 2015, Round 1

Posted by , on 30 March 2017

The Woods Hole Embryology Course, which will celebrate its 124th birthday this year, is a continual source of beautiful images (and videos) of development. Since 2011 the Node has run a competition for the ...

The people behind the papers: Thanh Vuong-Brender & Michel Labouesse

Posted by , on 30 March 2017

This year marks the centenary of D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form, an attempt to outline the physical and mathematical principles underpinning the generation of biological form. Modern day developmental biologists, ...

STEM Graduates announce partnership with the Science Council

Posted by , on 30 March 2017

STEM Graduates is a graduate recruitment agency and jobs board. We offer permanent salaried roles to students and graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics disciplines. We believe these candidates ...

A New Way To Look At Human Development

Posted by , on 29 March 2017

  Throughout history, the desire of scientists to understand physiology and disease by thoroughly studying anatomical features, has always faced an intractable limitation: they cannot simply see through the tissue! ...

Biologists find 'skin-and-bones' mechanism underlying zebrafish fin regeneration

Posted by , on 28 March 2017

This Press Release from the University of Oregon was originally posted on Eurekalert.   EUGENE, Ore. March 28, 2017 University of Oregon biologists have figured out how zebrafish perfectly regenerate ...

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