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What's the future of peer review?

Posted by , on 3 January 2013

Jordan Raff’s recent Biology Open editorial on the future of publishing, posted on the Node, sparked quite a debate in the comments section. Much of that discussion focussed on perceived ...

Advent calendar round-up

Posted by , on 25 December 2012

If you have been following along with the advent calendar we’ve had in the sidebar for the past couple of weeks, you will have seen twenty-four papers – all selected ...

Reprogramming development

Posted by , on 4 December 2012

This editorial by Development Editor-in-Chief Olivier Pourquié appears in the current issue of Development. It seems most appropriate to start this editorial by congratulating the 2012 winners of the Nobel ...

Book review: An introduction to decoding genomes

Posted by , on 29 November 2012

This book review originally appeared in Development. Jennifer Mitchell reviews “Introduction to Genomics” (by Arthur M. Lesk). Book info: Introduction to Genomics By Arthur M. Lesk. Oxford University Press (2011) ...

Mammalian epigenetics in biology and medicine - NEW from Royal Society Publishing

Posted by , on 27 November 2012

Royal Society Publishing has just published Mammalian epigenetics in biology and medicine, compiled and edited by Fumitoshi Ishino,Yoichi Shinkai and Emma Whitelaw. See – http://bit.ly/RGO3Y0 for further details or you ...

The BSCB Science Writing Competition- time to start writing!

Posted by , on 27 November 2012

Have you got a great science story in you? This autumn, the BSCB is again running its Science Writing Competition! The judges are looking for interesting, enthusiastic articles covering topics ...

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. ...

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 ...

"You have problems with gene regulation, you say?" "Then get rid of the genes!"

Posted by , on 23 August 2012

The purpose of this summary is to present to “The Node” readers a recent update to the story which, in my opinion, is a quite interesting example of the phenomenon ...

1DegreeBio: antibody resource with stem cell portal

Posted by , on 13 August 2012

I just came across a press release that looked like it might be interesting to some of you: 1DegreeBio has launched a Stem Cell Portal on its site, that allows ...

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