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Get involved with Young Embryologist Network!

Posted by , on 12 January 2015

Looking for a New Year’s resolution? Get involved with the Young Embryologist Network! Last year, Young Embryologist Network (YEN) seminars took place at Oxford University, Cardiff University and institutions across ...

The rabbit blastocyst modelling (for) vertebrate gastrulation

Posted by , on 5 January 2015

Form and function of animal gastrulation have been longstanding classics accompanying the rise of experimental embryology, and – as if to square the circle in the literal sense – the ...

Midwest Society for Developmental Biology Meeting, October 16-18, 2014

Posted by , on 29 December 2014

I am a little late getting this post pulled together, but I am going to consider it a developmental delay, hopefully one that still results in a reasonably wild-type embryo, ...

From naïve pluripotency to chimeras: a new ethical challenge?

Posted by , on 18 December 2014

This article by Insoo Hyun was first published in  Development. Also read the companion ethics article here.   In recent years, there has been much interest in the prospect of generating and using human stem cells ...

(Developmental) Biology around the internet- December 2014

Posted by , on 17 December 2014

Here is December’s round-up of some of the interesting content that we spotted around the internet!   News & Research: – Masayo Takahashi was the winner of the 2014 Stem Cell Person ...

In Development this week (Vol. 142, Issue 1)

Posted by , on 16 December 2014

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Planar cell polarity squeezes in on the action The planar cell polarity (PCP) pathway regulates the polarization of epithelial ...

Travelling Fellowship deadline approaching!

Posted by , on 10 December 2014

Are you a postdoc or student planning to visit a collaborator’s lab? Then apply for a Development travelling fellowship! You can be awarded up to £2,500 (or currency equivalent) to offset travel costs ...

A Day in the Life of a Turtle lab

Posted by , on 9 December 2014

We are Juan Pascual-Anaya and Tatsuya Hirasawa, two postdoctoral fellows at RIKEN (Kobe, Japan), in the laboratory of Shigeru Kuratani. We both have been working for the last 4-5 years ...

A day in the life of a cnidarian lab

Posted by , on 4 December 2014

I presume the first question that comes into people’s mind when they read the title would be “What are cnidarians?” I also presume a logical follow-up question would be “Why ...

New Reviews Editor at Development!

Posted by , on 2 December 2014

Dear Node readers, My name is Andrea Aguilar and I am replacing Caroline Hendry, Development‘s stem cells reviews editor, during her maternity leave. To spice things up a bit, I figured ...

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