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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 ...

Improving the design of animal experiments: Introducing the Experimental Design Assistant (EDA)

Posted by , on 7 June 2016

This post was originally published as a Newsletter article from ShARM (Shared Ageing Research Models) Scientists using animals in research have a responsibility to ensure that the studies are appropriately designed, conducted, ...

Research assistant position for subsequent appointment as PhD fellow

Posted by , on 2 June 2016

Research assistant position for subsequent appointment as PhD fellow to the project Deciphering the link between adhesion and pluripotency   The Danish Stem Cell Center (http://danstem.ku.dk) at Faculty of Health ...

Developmental Biology PhD project

Posted by , on 2 June 2016

Emergence of functional polarity in a tubular epithelium Applications are invited for a PhD project in the laboratory of Dr. Barry Denholm in the School of Biomedical Sciences at Edinburgh ...

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