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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Ian Velloso Randolph, on 4 September 2026
How is it possible that cnidarians evolved so many different ways to acomplish the same thing? Unipolar and multipolar ingression, invagination, delamination, epiboly… All the paths lead to ‘planula’ – ...Posted by Cherene de Bruyn, on 4 September 2026
The recent deluge of Substack and Medium articles, promising strategies and frameworks to work effectively and to complete tasks with intentionality, would have some to believe that the ‘P’ in PhD stands for “productivity” and not Philosophy. As if these neatly ...Posted by Vangeli Geshkovski, on 3 September 2026
How I started working on ULTRAPETALA1, the subject of a recent paper revealing how it influences plant development.Posted by Alyssa Paparella, on 1 September 2026
Somewhere, there’s a paper that will not get written. Before there’s a scientific paper, someone has to be there to ask the right question, design the right experiment, watch it ...Posted by the Node, on 1 September 2026
Friedrich Bliem writes about how patterns function as an epistemic bridge between scientific, cognitive and artistic processes.Posted by Saurabh chand Sagar, on 1 September 2026
Small historic background: In an era when caspases are known as killer proteins, Drosophila Malpighian tubules state otherwise. Drosophila is a holometabolous insect, meaning that it goes through three life ...Posted by Julia Ibe, on 31 August 2026
Bioinformatics can seem intimidating, especially when you're just starting out. But you don't need to be an expert to begin exploring single-cell RNA-seq data. In this short tutorial, I walk ...Posted by Gwendolyn_Kirschner, on 26 August 2026
The International Symposium on Root Development (often referred to as the “Rooting” conference series) takes place every three years and unites developmental biology, agriculture, plant-pathogen interactions, and biotechnology – on plant roots! After it ...Posted by Stefanie Williams, on 25 August 2026
As a university student working towards my bachelor’s degree, I didn’t even know what it would mean to add “Dr.” to my name. Six months into my postdoc, I regularly ...Posted by Katarina Kurtović, on 22 August 2026
It is summertime. I am eight years old and on summer break. I have been an early bird for as long as I can remember, and that morning I get ...