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A day in the life of a Transgenic Quail lab

Posted by , on 12 June 2026

Samara Ranie, PhD student in Melanie White's lab, takes us through a day in the life of a transgenic quail lab.

Vote for a Development cover from the Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology

Posted by , on 10 June 2026

Browse through the gallery of the 9 images and vote for your favourite by Wednesday, 24 June 2026.

Catch up on Development presents… finalists of the 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize

Posted by , on 9 June 2026

Our April webinar featured two of the papers named as finalists of Development’s 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize, presented by first-authors, Xi Yang and Bénédicte Lefèvre.

SciArt Profile: Ramin Rahni

Posted by , on 5 June 2026

In this SciArt profile, we showcase Ramin Rahni, a plant developmental biologist who integrates precision and noise in his creative work.

New FocalPlane features... webinar series on cell migration

Posted by , on 3 June 2026

We are delighted to announce that we are launching a second FocalPlane features... webinar series, this time focussing on cell migration. Our first webinar will be held on Thursday 11 ...

Call for papers – Plant and Algae Development

Posted by , on 1 June 2026

Development, host of the Node, invites you to submit your latest research to our upcoming Special Issue – Plant and Algae Development. This issue will be coordinated by Academic Editor Dominique ...

YEN 2026 Conference and Image Competition

Posted by , on 1 June 2026

We hope you are looking forward to the Young Embryologist Network Conference 2026! The meeting will be held at the Francis Crick Insitute on the 15th June 2026. There is still ...

What can happen during a short stay at a marine station?

Posted by , on 26 May 2026

I was fortunate to receive an EMBRC-supported grant to carry out a small project on calcium imaging in sea urchin larvae at the Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV). ...

From comparison to mechanism: decoding heart regeneration

Posted by , on 26 May 2026

In this Behind the paper story, Ben Lai tells us about a question that followed him for more than a decade.

The case for group meetings (all of them)

Posted by , on 20 May 2026

From the helpimascientist.com archive, an in-depth discussion covering the many purposes of laboratory group meetings and why you should care about all of them.

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