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August in preprints

Posted by , on 5 September 2016

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. See June’s post for background, and let us know if we missed anything It was another bumper month for preprints, as bioRxiv’s ...

This month on the Node

Posted by , on 5 September 2016

August was meant to be a quiet month, with researchers (in Europe, at least)  leaving the lab for a well earned break and winding down before the start of the ...

Assistant Professor Tenure Track Faculty, Division of Developmental Biology (DB) at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC)

Posted by , on 2 September 2016

Applications are invited for a tenure track Assistant Professor faculty position in the Division of Developmental Biology (DB) at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC).  DB is home to a ...

The people behind the papers: Kristen Koenig & Jeffrey Gross

Posted by , on 2 September 2016

Today’s paper is from the latest issue of Development and  introduces the squid Doryteuthis pealeii as a lophotrochozoan model for eye development. And the people are PI Jeffrey Gross, Director of the ...

A Tale of Trunks or Zen and the art of doing a PhD

Posted by , on 1 September 2016

The story of this paper is also the story of my PhD. It begins as most papers and PhDs do: with a distinct and often unrelated starting project or plan. ...

Introducing cross-referee commenting in peer review

Posted by , on 31 August 2016

This Editorial originally appeared in Development, Vol 143, Issue 17. Olivier Pourquié and Katherine Brown   At Development, we are always trying to improve our processes and service – for authors ...

#BarBarPlots!

Posted by , on 31 August 2016

(or: how to avoid misleading representations of statistical data)   Recently, a kickstarter project raised more than 3000€ in one month to campaign for banning the wrong usage of bar ...

In Development this week (Vol. 143, Issue 17)

Posted by , on 30 August 2016

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Coordinating neuronal specification and differentiation Neurogenesis – the process of making new neurons – is indispensable for normal development ...

Tackling Differentiated Stem Cell Production

Posted by , on 26 August 2016

This post was originally posted on eurostemcell.org, Europe’s stem cell hub.   by Julia Turan Part of the fascinating potential of stem cells is their ability to provide replacement cells and ...

The SDB-BSDB Interview Chain: Mathew Tata interviews Yusuff Abdu

Posted by , on 23 August 2016

Mathew Tata was the winner of the BSDB poster competition at the BSDB-BSCB 2016 meeting in Warwick. His prize was a trip to Boston to attend the SDB-ISD meeting in ...

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