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Mammalian Genetics and Development Workshop

Posted by , on 2 November 2011

THE MAMMALIAN GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP A meeting of the Genetics Society Venue: UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH Date: November 17th 2011. Organisers: Nick ...

Parenting in Science

Posted by , on 31 October 2011

After the interview with Ottoline Leyser was posted last week, a discussion on Twitter focussed on the last part of the interview, about parenting. That interview question referred to a ...

This month on the Node - October 2011

Posted by , on 31 October 2011

What was new on the Node this month? Here are a few of the highlights from October: MacArthur genius grant for Yukiko Yamashita Sasha Terashima interviewed Yukiko Yamashita, one of ...

In Development This Week (Vol. 138, Issue 22)

Posted by , on 25 October 2011

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: The skin-healing touch of Lhx2 Skin repair after injury involves the recruitment of undifferentiated progenitor cells from nearby hair follicles ...

European Court rules against embryonic stem cell patents

Posted by , on 18 October 2011

The European Court of Justice has today announced a landmark decision banning patenting of inventions based on embryonic stem cells. Several senior stem cell biologists have expressed their concern that ...

Yukiko Yamashita, a developmental biologist at U-M, named one of this year's MacArthur fellows

Posted by , on 13 October 2011

What would you do if you were given $500,000 to fund your research for five years, with no strings attached –– no proposals to write, no progress reports to submit? ...

In Development this week (Vol. 138, Issue 21)

Posted by , on 11 October 2011

Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: New blood: vasculature restrains pancreas growth Although the primary function of blood vessels is to provide organs with the oxygen ...

First course on insect neuroscience and Drosophila neurogenetics in Uganda

Posted by , on 7 October 2011

This is the first post of others to come on the first course on insect neuroscience and Drosophila neurogenetics in Uganda, that is being partially funded by The Company of ...

Company of Biologists Workshop - Growth, Division and Differentiation - Day 3 – afternoon

Posted by , on 7 October 2011

As a follow up to Ben Martynoga’s post from yesterday, here is some more information on the topics covered in this excellent workshop that took place a couple of weeks ...

Node survey results

Posted by , on 5 October 2011

A few months ago we ran a survey on the Node to ask how you used the site, and if you had any suggestions. First of all, a big thank-you ...

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