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the_node, 2 months ago to random

New #SciArt profile: Brent Foster

Apart from #ScienceWriting, one of #theNodeCorrespondents Brent Foster also enjoys drawing and painting, and often takes inspiration from the marine invertebrates he works with:

https://thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profile-brent-foster/

the_node, 6 months ago to microscopy

A while back we asked you, the Node community, to vote for your favourite artwork from @BSDB #DevBio_Art exhibition — the results are now in!

Have a look at the People's and Judges' choices of #microscopy images and #SciArt work:
https://thenode.biologists.com/peoples-choice-and-judges-choice-from-the-bsdb-the-node-virtual-art-exhibition/

The exhibition is still open until the end of November! Have a stroll around:

🔬Scientific images
https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/node/12245599

🖼#SciArt and 'Art by scientists'
https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/node/12245684

🦞🐬🐢🐤Historic embryo zoo
https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/node/12186775

the_node, 7 months ago to random

Be beating, my still heart!

How does the heart go from silent to beating during embryonic development? Read the story behind the paper 'A bioelectrical phase transition patterns the first vertebrate heartbeats' from first author Bill Jia:

📖https://thenode.biologists.com/be-beating-my-still-heart/research/

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the_node, 8 months ago to random

Meet the lab of Chema Martín-Durán @Chema_MD, based at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

The lab studies segmented worms with spiral cleavage to understand how development is controlled and evolves to generate new phenotypes #EvoDevo

https://thenode.biologists.com/lab-meeting-with-the-martin-duran-lab/