The Node is 15 years old this year! We thought it’d be fun to get in touch with prolific authors of the Node over the past 15 years, revisit the posts

To mark the 15th birthday of the Node, the past and present Community Managers of the Node got together to chat about what it's like working at the Node, and how this job has influenced their subseque...

What did it take to build a community site from scratch? What even is a community site? Follow along to find out how the Node was born.

Let's welcome the three new Node correspondents – Dosh Whye, Mariia Golden and Shefali! We look forward to working with them to bring you a wide range of

Behind the paper story for "Cell state transitions are decoupled from cell division during early embryo development" As embryos develop, their cells

In 2023 I was awarded a NC3Rs 20th Anniversary Public Engagement Award to develop and print a "Biological Research Trump Cards" game. I have now designed

With almost 200 posts published on the Node in 2024, below are just a few of our highlights. Have you read a Node post that you really enjoyed this year?

With almost 200 posts published on the Node in 2024, below are just a few of our highlights. Have you read a Node post that you really enjoyed this year?

Our 2024 FocalPlane correspondents - Daniel Doucet, Subhajit Dutta and Greg Redpath - Interviews

Find out more about the Gene Expression Database (GXD), a community resource that collects and integrates mouse gene expression data generated by biomedical researchers worldwide.

Meet the Hirashima lab, situated at the Mechanobiology Institute and Department of Physiology, National University of Singapore.

A wild tale of how scientists unraveled embryology's most fascinating mystery.

Keen to get more science communication experience? Is your research related to developmental and stem cell biology? The Node is looking for a reporter to attend and report from the Biologists @ 100 co...

Behind the paper stories Every paper has a story behind it, and we regularly commission scientists to tell theirs. In this collection you'll discover the

Summary: Extreme traits in animals, from the origin of limbs to the loss of tails, capture public attention. This Review argues that scientists should not seek simple explanations for how they evolved...

Abstract This article summarizes the outcomes and outputs of a workshop at the 2024 Researcher to Reader Conference that explored the perspectives of both publishers and early-career researchers (ECRs...

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