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From Stem Cells to Human Development- applications open!

Posted by , on 24 February 2016

  In 2014, Development organised a very successful meeting on how the use of stem cell technologies can inform our understanding of human development (you can read about it here or watch ...

From our sister journals- February 2016

Posted by , on 22 February 2016

Here is some developmental biology related content from other journals published by The Company of Biologists.           Using the developmental biology toolkit to study cancer Aiello ...

A day in the life of an embryonic stem cell lab!

Posted by , on 5 February 2016

Hi everyone! I’m Helena. Some of you may know me as the current intern here at the Node, but next week, I will go back to Alfonso Martínez Arias’ lab ...

Pluripotency in the mouse and beyond…

Posted by , on 4 February 2016

Preimplantation development establishes the founding cell population of the adult mammal in the epiblast. This naïve pluripotent state employs a unique hand of transcription factors to ensure epigenetic resetting and ...

Meeting reporter wanted for Germline Stem Cells Conference in San Fran!

Posted by , on 26 January 2016

  Germline Stem Cells Conference June 19-21, 2016 – San Francisco, California Website: www.abcam.com/germlinestemcells Germline stem cells represent a uniquely critical type of stem cell that is essential for fertility ...

Natural Pluripotency vs. Artificial Pluripotency

Posted by , on 20 January 2016

Pluripotency is the developmental potential of cells to become various types of mature cells in the body. During development, a pluripotent embryo progressively differentiates to give rise to mature cell ...

What do songbirds tell us about ES cells?

Posted by , on 8 January 2016

A running joke amongst avian developmental biologists is that the chicken (Gallus gallus) is the tastiest of the model organisms. A typical response from some of my mouse, frog or ...

Abstract deadline fast approaching: BMP Signalling in Cancer

Posted by , on 8 January 2016

BMP Signalling in Cancer 15—17 March 2016 St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, UK Join the Biochemical Society in exploring the mechanisms of BMP signal transduction and regulation of signalling, and discussing how ...

Making and re-making the brain

Posted by , on 23 December 2015

  The three-pound lump under our skulls that allows us to speak, run and function in our daily lives is a mass of dozens of types of minuscule cells joined ...

BSDB Gurdon Summer Studentship Report (6)

Posted by , on 3 December 2015

In 2014, the British Society of Developmental Biology (BSDB) has initiated the Gurdon Summer Studentship program with the intention to provide highly motivated students with exceptional qualities and a strong ...

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