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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 ...

Applying tandem timers to measure signalling and gene expression dynamics in developing embryos

Posted by , on 11 January 2016

The signalling systems that conduct the orchestra of embryonic development are fantastically complex and dynamic. We owe much of our knowledge of in vivo signalling dynamics to advances in microscopy ...

New updates on Node emails

Posted by , on 11 January 2016

Here on the Node you can sign up for several mailing lists, but since they were implemented at different stages each sign up page was in a different place. To makes things simpler ...

The BSDB Newsletter 2015 is out

Posted by , on 8 January 2016

The BSDB Newletter 2015 is out! As you might have noticed, there was no BSDB summer newsletter this year. The reason for this is that the BSDB committee has taken ...

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