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A Tale of Trunks or Zen and the art of doing a PhD

Posted by , on 1 September 2016

The story of this paper is also the story of my PhD. It begins as most papers and PhDs do: with a distinct and often unrelated starting project or plan. ...

A day in the life of a ctenophore lab

Posted by , on 1 September 2016

Who are we? Hi, my name is Ruairi Kavanagh and I’m a Master’s student at Plymouth University. For my dissertation I am based in The Marine Biological Association (MBA). I ...

Exciting news on neural stem cell niches: stunning research from Fiona Doetsch's lab

Posted by , on 26 August 2016

http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(16)30163-1 Sense & Sensibility: niche signals regulate neural stem cells in an age-dependent manner paper feature by Thomas Schwarz-Romond Tissue specific stem cell niches provide lifelong support for adult stem ...

A day in the life of a sponge lab (yes, there are labs devoted to these animals!)

Posted by , on 24 August 2016

Forget about those large amounts of bottles containing thousands of flies, those huge piles of boxes containing different lineages of mice or large tanks filled with happy-hopping frogs. Also, forget ...

The people behind the papers: Thomas Lozito

Posted by , on 22 August 2016

Today’s paper is from the latest issue of Development and investigates the mechanisms of lizard tail regeneration, revealing distinct cell behaviours in the proximal versus distal regenerating tail. Today’s person is Thomas Lozito, ...

SDB-ISD 2016 Meeting Report

Posted by , on 18 August 2016

The joint meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology and the International Society for Differentiation was held in Boston between August 4th and 8th. It was a meeting of firsts ...

The people behind the papers: Martin Beck, Yannick Schwab, Nicole Schrieber & Paolo Ronchi

Posted by , on 16 August 2016

In this new series, we interview the people behind some of the most exciting recent papers in developmental biology and related fields, to give context to the work and find out ...

A new role of an insect steroid hormone: The link between mating and germline stem cells

Posted by , on 11 August 2016

Tomotsune Ameku, Ryusuke Niwa’s lab, University of Tsukuba, Japan.   Steroid hormones have crucial roles in regulating a broad range of biological processes in most multicellular organisms. They are produced ...

BSCB BSDB Joint Spring Meeting Report

Posted by , on 28 July 2016

The BSDB had its joint Spring Meeting with the BSCB earlier this year in April (10th -13th). It was my first time at the Meeting, which had been enthusiastically sold ...

PhD position in stem cell biology

Posted by , on 20 July 2016

The Paridaen lab at the European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA) in Groningen, The Netherlands, is looking for a PhD student on Stem cell biology. Stem cells ...

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