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How being a scientist helped me to be a good mother

Posted by , on 17 January 2025

Last year I became the mother of fraternal twins. I love being a parent, but in a profession rife with gender inequalities, I am also aware of how my transition …
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Behind the paper: “Recording morphogen signals reveals origins of gastruloid symmetry breaking”

Posted by , on 17 January 2025

Stem cell models as laboratories to study self-organization My road from physics to developmental biology began in a journal club during my PhD in Adam Cohen’s lab at Harvard. We …

Lab meeting with the Das lab

Posted by , on 17 January 2025

This is part of the ‘Lab meeting’ series featuring developmental and stem cell biology labs around the world. Where is the lab? The lab is located at National Centre for …

ASAPbio Fellows: A community driven approach to changing science communication

Posted by , on 16 January 2025

The use of preprints in biology has thrived over the past decade. Many groups now regularly share their latest papers on a preprint server with the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting the …

Who won the 2024 Development cover image of the year?

Posted by , on 15 January 2025

Over the last few weeks, we asked you to vote for your favourite 2024 Development cover image. Thank you to everyone who voted. Now that the poll is closed, let’s …

Celebrating 100 years of The Company of Biologists

Posted by , on 14 January 2025

Happy New Year, everyone. 2025 is a big year for us at The Company of Biologists, marking 100 years since the Company was founded. We’re using this opportunity to reflect …

Winding road to the cambial stem cells

Posted by , on 13 January 2025

In plants, the vascular cambium, a bifacial stem cell niche, drives wood formation by generating the xylem on one side and the phloem on the other. In this post, Ari …

Second Symposium on Women in Tunicate Biology: March 25-26, 2025

Posted by , on 10 January 2025

Dear Colleagues,Happy New Year! Two years ago, we organized the inaugural symposium dedicated to Women in Tunicate Biology. It was a joyful event, celebrating women scientists from the 19th century …

Biological Research Trump Cards: from fruit flies to stem cells… who will come out on top?

Posted by , on 6 January 2025

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 and printed 100 packs …

December in preprints

Posted by , on 3 January 2025

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv – use these links below to …

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