Spotlight – An interview with George Daley

“It really is a core responsibility of scientists … to be willing to speak out on behalf of their science”

George Daley, who was awarded the ISSCR 2017 Public Service Award, talks about his career investigating the biology and clinical application of stem cells, the importance of ethical guidelines and of science advocacy.

Meeting report – EMBO/EMBL Symposium ‘Metabolism in Time and Space’

The 2017 EMBO/EMBL Symposium ‘Metabolism in Time and Space’ was held at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, in May 2017. Alena Krejci and Jason M. Tennessen review this interdisciplinary meeting that provided a valuable forum to explore the interface between developmental biology and metabolism.

Primer – The enigma of embryonic diapause

Marilyn B. Renfre and Jane C. Fenelon discuss the complex embryo-uterine interactions that induce, maintain and reactivate the blastocyst from diapause, highlighting the roles of hormones, cytokines and growth factors across animal species.

New on the Node – Embryosafari: illustrating development

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Developmental biologist and digital artist Kalin Narov shares his journey from childhood modelling clay sculptures of sci-fi characters to his beautiful illustrations of organogenesis.

Articles of interest in our sister journals

A GEF activity-independent function for nuclear Net1 in Nodal signal transduction and mesendoderm formation. J. Cell Sci. 2017 130: 3072-3082.

In this Research article published in Journal of Cell Science, Qiang Wang and colleagues show that Net1 associates with Smad2 in the nucleus in a GEF-independent manner and facilitates Smad2 transcriptional activity to guide mesendoderm development in zebrafish.