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Posted by S Serena Ding, on 3 March 2014
I am Serena Ding, a third year PhD student, and I work at the University of Oxford’s Biochemistry Department in the United Kingdom. I am interested in the control of ...Posted by the Node, on 20 December 2013
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are an annual event where science is celebrated and young people are inspired. This year’s lectures celebrate the Life Fantastic, and will showcase the excitement, ...Posted by Andre Brown, on 27 November 2013
Research, write grants, publish papers, teach, manage staff, collaborate. And now engage the public?! Most scientists have their hands full, and while public engagement sounds nice in the abstract, actually ...Posted by the Node, on 5 September 2013
For the last round of Woods Hole images this year we have an exciting development- the last round is a movie round! Below are 4 great movies from last year’s ...Posted by Andrew Chisholm, on 26 October 2012
On my desk sits a tattered photocopy of one of the pinnacles of modern developmental biology, the “embryonic lineage” paper by John Sulston, et al. (1983). In this paper, Sulston ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 10 October 2012
To me, the stem cells within a germline are a perfect storm of fascination. Stem cells are, of course, intriguing in their ability to self-renew and differentiate, and a germline ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 1 July 2011
Last week I attended the 18th international C. elegans meeting at UCLA, organised by the Genetics Society of America. Having done most of my scientific training with mammalian cell culture, ...Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 20 June 2011
Here is part 3 of my report on the 2011 BSCB-BSDB Spring Conference this April in Canterbury. In the first part, I covered Mark Krasnow’s amazing opening lecture on lung ...Posted by kyook, on 29 October 2010
WormBase — wormbase.org — is the central data repository for Caenorhabditis elegans and related nematodes. C. elegans is a well-known system for studying problems in developmental biology, the benefits of ...