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Posted by Deirdre Lyons, on 14 August 2013
Symposium: The cell’s view of animal body plan evolution Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Annual Meeting January 3-7, 2014 Austin, TX http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2014/symposia/cellevo.php Abstract submission deadline: August 26 2013 http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2014/abstracts/ ...Posted by UChicagoDRSB_JC, on 16 April 2013
When sculpting evolutionary histories—when telling the stories of change over time—the developmental biologist is often drawn to similarity. She wants to figure out what that last common ancestor was like; ...Posted by Sébastien Darras, on 25 October 2012
Post-doc position in Developmental Biology Development and evolution of median fin in chordates A post-doc position is available in the group of Sébastien DARRAS. The group has been recently ...Posted by Bruno Vellutini, on 7 September 2011
Turtles are peculiar vertebrates. They have a compact skull with no temporal openings, a beak instead of teeth, a contractible neck, and a shell covering its trunk. The famous turtle ...Posted by Seema Grewal, on 7 June 2011
Here are the highlights from the current issue of Development: Mutant Xist merely muffles X chromosome In XX female mammals, inactivation of one X chromosome during development equalises the levels ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 24 January 2011
Is this Monday not quite giving you the results you were hoping for? Cheer up with a few science music videos. This one, “Bad Project”, is being emailed around rapidly ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 8 December 2010
We can all articulate the importance of using model organisms to understand biology, but many of us fall short in our understanding of some of the more uncommon model organisms. ...Posted by Shreeharsha T Tarikere, on 14 September 2010
I am a graduate student from Indian Institute for Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India. I wish to share some of my work and life experiences in Japan from ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 2 September 2010
In a paper published today in Cell, Detlev Arendt, Raju Tomer and colleagues reveal evidence that the cerebral cortex evolved much earlier than previously believed. Using a new technique to ...Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 9 August 2010
I’ve just come back from a lab retreat in a country house in Sussex, UK. The weather was good and we had our scientific sessions, ranging from discussions on Sonic ...