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Posted by Lilian Hunt, on 11 April 2014
I recently took part in the ‘I’m a scientist, get me out of here!’ outreach event. As soon as the school children found out I was a developmental geneticist and ...Posted by nkonst, on 1 April 2014
My name is Nikos. I just finished my PhD in the lab of Michalis Averof , starting my thesis at IMBB, in Crete and completing it at IGFL, in Lyon. ...Posted by the Node, on 12 March 2014
The joint Spring meeting of the British Society for Cell Biology and British Society for Developmental Biology is coming up soon, and the Node will be there! Not only will ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 28 February 2014
When it comes to stem cell biology, there have been very few topics as fascinating and popular as cell reprogramming, the most famous reprogramming experiment being the one of Dolly ...Posted by Thibaut Brunet, on 27 December 2013
I am a former diploma student in Emmanuel Farge’s team “Mechanics and genetics of embryonic and tumoral development” (Paris). Watching embryos could only convince me of Lewis Wolpert’s famous claim ...Posted by Alexis Webb, on 10 December 2013
Some scientists would say that postdoctoral fellows have the most desirable position in the lab. As a postdoc, you have the research experience from your PhD to give you credibility ...Posted by the Node, on 5 December 2013
This article was first published in Development, and was written by Ben-Zion Shilo, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. How can the revolution in our understanding of embryonic development and stem ...Posted by UChicagoDRSB_JC, on 1 November 2013
Greetings, Node readers! We at The University of Chicago have just resumed our yearly Development, Regeneration and Stem Cell Biology Journal Club. I would like to take this opportunity to ...Posted by Alexandra de Sousa, on 28 October 2013
“Evolution of the Human Neocortex: How Unique Are We?” was the question asked at the Wiston House in West Sussex from 22-25 September 2013. Although we were hardly the first to ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 23 October 2013
Here’s a basic but really important question… how do stem cell scientists actually identify the stem cells they are raving about? We have all heard that we have stem ...