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Questions of the Month - After the Referendum

Posted by , on 30 June 2016

On the 23rd of June the United Kingdom held a referendum on whether to remain a member of the European Union or to leave. Prior to the vote, Nature reported that ...

After the Referendum: Links

Posted by , on 30 June 2016

To complement our Questions of the Month, we’ve brought together some post-referendum science links   News and Comment Nature reported on science’s reaction to the news, on post-ref limbo, bemoaned the lack of a ...

YEN does it again

Posted by , on 29 June 2016

Last month saw the return of the Young Embryologist Network annual meeting held this year at the UCL Institute of Child Health. To settle into the long weekend, a number ...

Plant “Velcro” holds it all together

Posted by , on 27 June 2016

  Plant hairs or trichomes mean little to most people until they bite into a furry skinned peach or prick their finger on a rose bush thorn, but in the ...

YEN 2016 review

Posted by , on 26 June 2016

My informal review of YEN this year is by necessity a bit rushed but, for what it is, here it is. Most reviews are very short and pithy/jealous and only ...

Model Organism Database funding is in trouble: Let your voice be heard

Posted by , on 23 June 2016

  Model Organisms such as yeast, worm, fly, fish, rat, and mouse are key drivers of biological research, providing manipulable and cost-effective experimental systems that continuously yield fundamental insights into ...

A day in the life of a gar lab

Posted by , on 21 June 2016

My name is Martin Minařík and I am a PhD student in Robert Cerny’s lab at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Our lab focuses mostly on the development of ...

Research Associate - University College London

Posted by , on 17 June 2016

Applications are invited for the post of Research Associate. This post will be based in the Zebrafish Group (with Masazumi Tada) of the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology (CDB). ...

Hello from Aidan!

Posted by , on 14 June 2016

I’m happy to introduce myself as the Node’s new Community Manager, taking up the reins from Cat Vicente, who said goodbye recently, and left this unique site in great shape. ...

Sweetening with a pinch of salt: maximized Cas9 efficiency in zebrafish

Posted by , on 14 June 2016

  Alexa Burger, Mosimann lab, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zürich, Switzerland. When I first heard about the “new” genome editing method in early 2013 called CRISPR-Cas9, I ...

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