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From our sister journals- January 2016

Posted by , on 26 January 2016

Here is some developmental biology-related content from other journals published by The Company of Biologists.     Characterisation of Slc9a6 knockout heterozygous female mice Mutations in SLC9A6 are responsible for X-linked Christianson ...

An interview with Peter Lawrence

Posted by , on 20 January 2016

This interview first featured in Development.   Peter Lawrence, FRS, is a fly geneticist based at the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge. During his illustrious career he ...

In Development this week (Vol. 143, Issue 2)

Posted by , on 20 January 2016

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Fishing out a role for Caveolin 1 in heart regeneration Unlike the adult mammalian heart, the adult zebrafish heart ...

Woods Hole images 2014 round 1- vote for a Development cover

Posted by , on 18 January 2016

Every year, students from the Woods Hole Embryology course produce some stunning images. It’s now time for readers of the Node to vote which of images from the 2014 Woods Hole ...

Regeneration thwarts ageing in newts

Posted by , on 17 January 2016

Konstantinos Sousounis and Panagiotis A. Tsonis   The human eye is built to deliver the sense of vision. The eye lens is one of the organs playing role in focusing ...

An interview with Melina Schuh

Posted by , on 14 January 2016

This interview first featured in the Journal of Cell Science and is part of their interview series Cell Scientists to Watch.   Melina Schuh received her diploma degree in biochemistry from ...

In Memory of Marcos Vidal (1974-2016)

Posted by , on 13 January 2016

This obituary was written by Ross Cagan and Eyal Gottlieb, and first appeared in Disease Models & Mechanisms.   With the untimely death of Marcos Vidal, we have lost a good friend and a ...

Forgotten classics- Cell layers in the shoot meristem

Posted by , on 12 January 2016

  Satina, S., Blakeslee, A.F., and Avery, A.G. (1940) Demonstration of the Three Germ Layers in the Shoot Apex of Datura by Means of Induced Polyploidy in Periclinal Chimeras. American ...

Forgotten classics of developmental biology- a new Node series

Posted by , on 12 January 2016

You just started your research career, or maybe you just moved fields. The first thing on your to-do list is to catch up with the literature. What has been the ...

Mole- So now you have your own lab! Part VIII- Money Matters

Posted by , on 11 January 2016

This cartoon was first published in the Journal of Cell Science. Read other articles and cartoons of Mole & Friends here.   Part I- ‘The imposter’ Part II- ‘The teaching monster’ Part ...

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