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A day in the life of a Planarian lab

Posted by , on 12 April 2015

Greetings and warm welcome to the “Planarian lab @ Oxford” The lab is based in the Department of Zoology in The Tinbergen Building on South parks Road in the “Land ...

Independent Research Group Leaders in Cross-Disciplinary or Translational Stem Cell Science

Posted by , on 10 April 2015

Department/Location: Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, university of Cambridge Salary: £38,511-£65,453 Reference: PS05703 Closing date: 01 June 2015 The Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council ...

''The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.'' - The Nurse review of science funding.

Posted by , on 10 April 2015

The following is my response to the Nurse review on scientific funding call for evidence: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/nurse-review-of-research-councils-call-for-evidence Now he has lots of free time(!) having stepped down from running the Royal ...

The Node at the BSDB Spring Meeting!

Posted by , on 9 April 2015

From this Sunday the University of Warwick will be the location of this year’s British Society for Developmental Biology Spring meeting, held jointly with the British Society for Cell Biology. ...

Editorial: Developing peer review

Posted by , on 7 April 2015

This editorial first appeared in Development.   Those of you reviewing for Development from this week onwards will notice some changes to our Reviewer Guidelines and Report Forms. After consultation with our Academic ...

In Development this week (Vol. 142, Issue 8)

Posted by , on 7 April 2015

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Getting to the heart of human epicardial differentiation The epicardium is crucial for heart development and function, and it ...

Best method to measure force transmission between cells

Posted by , on 6 April 2015

We have been trying to implement FRET in the lab and transfect our cells with mechanical biosensors, but so far we haven’t managed to successfully force our cells to express our ...

How a new startup is bridging the gap between universities and industry

Posted by , on 3 April 2015

  About a year ago, I met someone at a conference who worked at a food chemistry lab in New Orleans. She was telling me about how her company had ...

This month on the Node- March 2015

Posted by , on 1 April 2015

Here are some of the highlights on the Node in the last month:   Discussion: – Following your feedback to our survey, this month we launched a new feature to ...

Mole- So now you have your own lab! Part II- The teaching monster

Posted by , on 31 March 2015

This cartoon was first published in the Journal of Cell Science. Read other articles and cartoons of Mole & Friends here.   To read part I- ‘The imposter’ click here.

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