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The 6th International EMT Meeting

Posted by , on 14 June 2013

The 6th biennial meeting of the EMT International Association (TEMTIA) will be held in Alicante, Spain, Nov. 13- 16, 2013. For information and registration, please visit www.emtmeeting.org. Special sessions will ...

ISSCR Annual Meeting - Day 1

Posted by , on 13 June 2013

Wow. Big conference Over four thousand stem cell biologists were welcomed by Nobel Laureate and ISSCR President Shinya Yamanaka in the opening address of the 11th Annual Symposium of the ...

Amniote gastrulation without a streak

Posted by , on 12 June 2013

The three principal germ layers of the vertebrate embryo, ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm, emerge from the pluripotent epiblast during the process of gastrulation. Being especially interested in the molecular and ...

ISSCR Annual Meeting 2013

Posted by , on 11 June 2013

Hi there, My name’s Harry and i’m going to be blogging from the ISSCR annual meeting in Boston, starting tomorrow. I’ll try and add daily updates to let you know ...

Red fish, blue fish, Brainbow fish!

Posted by , on 11 June 2013

Here is a little backstory to our zebrafish Brainbow (Zebrabow) paper published in Development. After finishing up my graduate work in Josh Sanes’s lab at Harvard, I decided to join ...

In Development this week (Vol. 140, Issue 13)

Posted by , on 11 June 2013

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Centrosomes and cell fate: a Notch ahead Asymmetric cell divisions (ACDs) play a crucial role in controlling cell fate ...

This month on the Node: May

Posted by , on 31 May 2013

May was another busy month on the Node, with a combination of research, publishing and Node news, in addition to several job posts. One very exciting news was that the Node has ...

The SDB-BSDB Interview Chain: the Node interviews Aditya Saxena

Posted by , on 30 May 2013

At the last BSDB meeting Adi was the winner of the BSDB poster prize. Unfortunately John Young – the winner of the last SDB poster prize – was unable to ...

Development and DORA

Posted by , on 28 May 2013

Following on from last week’s post about the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, Development has now published an editorial about the topic. For those interested, I’m re-posting (a slightly ...

Stem cells crossing boundaries

Posted by , on 16 May 2013

For most of us, we don’t all end up settled as adults in the same town where we were born.  The same is true for many cells, including some stem ...

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