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Developing a new look

Posted by , on 17 November 2015

This editorial first appeared in Development, and it was authored by Olivier Pourquié, Katherine Brown and Claire Moulton.   As you might have noticed, Development has been looking a little ...

In Development this week (Vol. 142, Issue 22)

Posted by , on 17 November 2015

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Nodal: sustaining Shh expression Underlying the developing vertebrate forebrain is the prechordal mesoderm, which secretes sonic hedgehog (Shh) at ...

Travelling fellowship: Breaking boundaries in science from Colombia to London

Posted by , on 6 November 2015

I am a third year PhD student and I work on limb regeneration in a non-model organism: Bolitoglossa ramosi, a salamander belonging to the family Plethodontidae. These salamanders show some ...

An interview with José Silva

Posted by , on 5 November 2015

This interview first featured in the Journal of Cell Science and is part of their interview series Cell Scientists to Watch.   José Silva studied biology at the University of Porto, ...

Mole- So now you have your own lab! Part VI- FCTWAWKI

Posted by , on 4 November 2015

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 ...

In Development this week (Vol. 142, Issue 21)

Posted by , on 3 November 2015

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Spatial mapping in the brain Many sensory systems show topographic mapping: the spatial organisation of peripheral receptors is preserved ...

Workshop “Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance”

Posted by , on 2 November 2015

At the beginning of October 2015, the workshop “Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance” organized by Edith Heard, Ruth Lehmann and the Company of Biologists took place in Wiston House, West Sussex, United ...

This month on the Node- October 2015

Posted by , on 1 November 2015

Research: – Can we make embryos in silico? Miquel posted about his recent paper in Bioinformatics, and the modeling framework he implemented in the new tool EmbryoMaker. – What does YAP ...

Does (brain) size matter?

Posted by , on 30 October 2015

Chris Puhl and Rebecca McIntosh   As a part of a team of students from the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London we commissioned and edited an issue ...

Question of the month- "Away from the bench" skills

Posted by , on 30 October 2015

Recently, Tomer Stern and Itamar Harel posted on the Node about Graduate Peer Group, a discussion group where graduate students could interact with each other and address the challenges that ...

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