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New Reviews Editor at Development

Posted by , on 6 November 2012

Associate Reviews Editor (Stem Cells) Development Based in Cambridge, UK Applications are sought for a new role of Associate Reviews Editor for the stem cell field at Development. Joining an ...

This month on the Node - October 2012

Posted by , on 1 November 2012

The big news this past month was of course the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, awarded to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for their work on ...

Development symposium photos and panel discussion

Posted by , on 30 October 2012

Last Thursday, Development organized a one-day symposium, “Past, Present and Future”, to mark the 25th anniversary of the journal. All speakers were past or present editors of Development, and the ...

Interview with Linda Partridge

Posted by , on 29 October 2012

At the EMBO meeting in late September, Linda Partridge gave a keynote talk about the role of the nutrient-sensing insulin/IGF/TOR signaling network in ageing. In her talk she showed, for ...

The embryonic cell lineage of C. elegans, revisited and revisualized

Posted by , on 26 October 2012

On my desk sits a tattered photocopy of one of the pinnacles of modern developmental biology, the “embryonic lineage” paper by John Sulston, et al. (1983). In this paper, Sulston ...

BiO Editorial - Publishing in the biomedical sciences: if it's broken, fix it!

Posted by , on 23 October 2012

To mark Open Access Week (October 22-28), the Node is reposting a recent editorial in Biology Open (BiO), by BiO editor-in-Chief Jordan Raff. Please leave your feedback in the comments. ...

In Development this week (Vol. 139, Issue 22)

Posted by , on 23 October 2012

Here are the research highlights from the current issue of Development:   Nodal regulates germ cell potency During mammalian gonadal development, somatic cues regulate the sex-specific development of foetal germ ...

Interview with Jiří Friml

Posted by , on 19 October 2012

At the EMBO meeting last month, Jiří Friml was awarded the EMBO Gold Medal. This medal is awarded annually to a researcher under the age of forty, who has contributed ...

The Hydra Summer School – training future stem cell biologists at the frontier

Posted by , on 17 October 2012

Despite the fact that I write this meeting post after three weeks of the summer school, I feel as though I’m writing directly from the Hydra Island, the experience and ...

Worms teach about germline stem cells

Posted by , on 10 October 2012

To me, the stem cells within a germline are a perfect storm of fascination.  Stem cells are, of course, intriguing in their ability to self-renew and differentiate, and a germline ...

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