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Juggling the demands of a career and a family is a challenge that confronts many researchers. Are universities doing enough to help academics cope with these often-conflicting commitments?
When pathways vital for development go awry, the consequences can be disastrous. This collection of reviews highlights emerging translational aspects of developmental biology at a time when the first clinical applications are taking shape.
Laboratories depend on an international workforce, yet crossing national boundaries remains a trial of endurance for many academics both in the United States and Europe.
Information exchange in biology has already been enriched by online-only journals, databases, blogs and conference webcasting, but now Nature Precedings, an open access document sharing tool, aims to bring the community in line with the physical sciences, which have long used preprint servers.
Junior researchers are encouraged to gain experience abroad, and for senior scientists, sabbaticals remain popular. France has taken the next step in fostering international exchange, by supporting long-term collaborations with foreign laboratories and by creating research units abroad.
The Ringberg Colloquia were launched last month with a meeting entitled “Self-organization and Morphogenesis in Biological Systems”. The series promises to provide a discussion-oriented forum for interdisciplinary research.
