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The Story Behind the Campaign to Put a Woman of Science on the $10 Bill

Posted by , on 26 October 2015

  Originally posted to the blog Genes to Genomes, reposed with permission. Don Gibson (University of California, Davis) describes how he decided to start the Barbara on the Bill Campaign When I heard that ...

Cricket Leg Regeneration: Histone Modification Matters

Posted by , on 22 October 2015

In autumn, crickets generally exhibit chirping songs in the temperate East Asian country of Japan. While the African field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus originates from tropical countries, it is an emerging ...

Joint Meeting of the Portuguese, Spanish and British Societies for Developmental Biology

Posted by , on 21 October 2015

A portuguese person, a spanish person and an english person meet in a bar… … and start discussing developmental biology. This may sound like the beginning of a joke, but ...

An interview with Mike Levine

Posted by , on 20 October 2015

This interview first featured in Development.   Mike Levine, director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, is a developmental biologist who has dedicated his career to understanding ...

In Development this week (Vol. 142, Issue 20)

Posted by , on 20 October 2015

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Atoh1: earmarked for differentiation Atoh1 is a key regulator of the differentiation of hair cells, the sensory cells that ...

Research Assistant - Bioinformatician

Posted by , on 20 October 2015

Department/Location: Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, UK Salary: £24,775-£28,695 Reference: PS07303 Closing date: 12 November 2015 Fixed-term: The funds for this post ...

(Developmental) Biology around the internet- October 2015

Posted by , on 16 October 2015

Here is October’s round-up of some of the interesting content that we spotted around the internet!   News & Research – Developmental Biologist Eric Davidson, who was based at CalTech, ...

Biocurator positions at Xenbase, the Xenopus Model Organism database

Posted by , on 13 October 2015

Xenbase (www.xenbase.org) is the Xenopus bioinformatics and genomics resource. Xenopus is a major model for fundamental cell and developmental biology and a model for human disease. Xenbase is a totally ...

EDRC 2015 Meeting report: "Ich hab mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren"

Posted by , on 8 October 2015

Hundreds of fly researchers from Europe and around the world gathered in the picturesque German city of Heidelberg to attend the European Drosophila Research Conference or EDRC. The local organizers ...

The Hippo effector YAP in retinal stem cells

Posted by , on 7 October 2015

Xenopus represents a prime model for dissecting in vivo the signalling network that controls retinal stem cell behaviour. Its retina indeed retains a reservoir of active neural stem cells in ...

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