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On how odd critters can answer important questions

Posted by , on 27 March 2013

Sproing! Sproing! Sproing! If there is one animal that deserves its own cartoon sound, it is the jerboa – a bipedal desert rodent with extraordinarily elongated hindlegs, fused foot bones, ...

In Development this week (Vol. 140, Issue 8)

Posted by , on 26 March 2013

Here are the highlights from the new issue of Development: Molecular map of posterior hypothalamus The hypothalamus is a key integrative centre in the vertebrate brain that regulates many essential ...

Developmental Biology Teaching Workshop at Darling Marine Center

Posted by , on 22 March 2013

The University of Maine Darling Marine Center will once again host a Developmental Biology Teaching Workshop, June 25-29, 2013.  Openings are still available! This workshop is geared toward university faculty, ...

New Reviews Editor at Development!

Posted by , on 22 March 2013

Dear readers of the Node, Hi there! My name is Caroline and I am the new Reviews Editor covering all things stem cells at Development. I come to you from ...

Report on “The Making of a Vertebrate – RIKEN CDB Symposium 2013”

Posted by , on 22 March 2013

When your model organism of choice is medaka, and you spend your mornings trying to rid your embryos of their tough chorion, you comfort yourself thinking that one day all ...

Abstract Submission for 8th European Zebrafish Meeting is approaching

Posted by , on 12 March 2013

The 8th European Zebrafish Meeting, 9-13 July, Barcelona welcomes proposals from all areas of zebrafish research for consideration for oral and poster presentation. This meeting will gather together researchers from ...

Becoming a confident scientific speaker

Posted by , on 9 March 2013

Like needles in a haystack, interesting speakers that bring charisma and rock n’ roll to their talks are hard to come by. No matter what the research interests of the ...

EMBO Workshop: Morphogen Gradients

Posted by , on 4 March 2013

We are pleased to announce that an EMBO Workshop on Morphogen Gradients will be held in Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK from 26 – 29th June 2013. Registration is now ...

Making sense of Wnt signaling

Posted by , on 3 March 2013

Did it ever occur to you that to enjoy music from Antonio Vivaldi to Lil Wayne, we use only about 22,000 sensory hair cells in our ears? Because hair cells ...

This month on the Node: February 2013

Posted by , on 28 February 2013

It was a short month, but a momentous one in the life of the Node: Eva, who set up the site and ran it for the last almost three years, ...

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