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Building strength and stability: assembly of tendon-bone attachment

Posted by , on 12 July 2013

I appreciate my health and body, but I admit that there are times when I take all of the amazing biology inside my body for granted.  My bones and muscles ...

The end of biology?

Posted by , on 9 July 2013

  ‘England is the only nation on earth that has managed to limit the power of kings by resisting them, and has finally established a wise system of government in ...

The SDB-BSDB Interview Chain: Aditya Sexana interviews Kara Nordin

Posted by , on 9 July 2013

A few weeks ago we interviewed Aditya Saxena, who won the poster prize at the BSDB meeting. His prize was to travel to Mexico to attend the ISDB meeting. Continuing ...

The Node at the Zebrafish meeting in Barcelona

Posted by , on 5 July 2013

Next week will see the 8th european zebrafish meeting happening in Barcelona, Spain. The Node will be there, and (if there is internet available) we will be tweeting from the ...

In Development this week (Vol. 140, Issue 14)

Posted by , on 3 July 2013

Here are the highlights from the latest issue of Development. Extrinsic cue for dendrite polarisation Most neurons have a single axon on one side of their cell body and multiple ...

SpotLight on Otago: Distant Developments

Posted by , on 2 July 2013

Developmental biology from near the south pole Kia Ora from New Zealand Hi, I’m Megan Wilson and I’m a lecturer in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Otago, ...

This month on the Node- June

Posted by , on 30 June 2013

June saw a lot of interesting posts on the Node! Meeting reports, research posts, and more, as well as few new jobs in our jobs page. Here are some of the ...

Making and breaking the left-right axis in Cancun

Posted by , on 28 June 2013

Just before the ISDB meeting in Mexico, over a hundred researchers gathered for a satellite symposium on the development of left-right asymmetry. Although the external body plans of vertebrates (and ...

There and back again...

Posted by , on 26 June 2013

We’ve all heard the aphorism that once you leave academia, you can’t go back. A little over two years ago, I wrote about my transition from academic research to scientific ...

Mouse Molecular Genetics 2013

Posted by , on 24 June 2013

Mouse Molecular Genetics 18-21 September 2013 Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK Abstract and Bursary deadline: 19 July | Registration deadline: 7 August We are pleased to announce that ...

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