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Dates for your calendar

Posted by , on 16 January 2012

Conference season is about to kick off, so here are a few registration dates for various meetings you might want to attend. If you know of any others, please leave ...

In Development this week (Vol. 139, Issue 3)

Posted by , on 12 January 2012

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   CycA takes control of endoreplication Endocycles – repeated rounds of DNA replication without intervening mitoses – are involved in ...

Free early career scientist places available at The Company of Biologists Workshops!

Posted by , on 10 January 2012

The Company of  Biologists run 3 cutting edge Workshops each year organised by the leading scientists in their fields.   They are small workshops with 30 attendees made up of 20 invited speakers ...

Bingo!

Posted by , on 9 January 2012

Somites, confocal, epigenetics, germline, stem cell… BINGO! Thanks to all of your help and suggestions, BenchFly has now produced the Developmental Biology Group Meeting Bingo game. From their post: “Bingo? ...

This month on the Node - December 2011

Posted by , on 30 December 2011

Many of you may have a few days off from work at the moment. If you want to catch up on what you missed on the Node this month, read ...

Stem cells, cellules souches, Stammzellen: taking research to Europe's public

Posted by , on 22 December 2011

It’s been a busy year for EuroStemCell: Europe’s stem cell hub – see www.eurostemcell.org for more information on who we are. We’d like to wish The Node community a happy ...

In Development this week (Vol. 139, Issue 2)

Posted by , on 20 December 2011

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development:   Balanced ephrin/Eph signals drive topographic mapping During development of the retinotectal axonal projection, which connects the retina to the ...

Dates for your calendar

Posted by , on 9 December 2011

Dates for your calendar This is a selection of upcoming dates of interest, but it’s by no means an exhaustive list. We’ll try to do these once in a while, ...

Wellcome PhD - Lab 3: Pigs that fly

Posted by , on 8 December 2011

This is my personal report on the last of three laboratory projects which I have undertaken during the rotation year of my 4-year Wellcome Trust PhD. I studied how flies ...

Book review: A molecular view of the life and time of RNA

Posted by , on 8 December 2011

This book review originally appeared in Development. Ilan Davis reviews “Molecular Biology of RNA” (by David Elliot and Michael Ladomery). Book info: Molecular Biology of RNA By David Elliot, Michael ...

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