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preLighters’ choice - October’s handpicked preprints

Posted by , on 12 November 2025

Concise preprint highlights from the October preprint list, prepared by the preLighter community. Quick reads from early-career researchers to help working scientists spot the month’s most exciting biological preprints.

Beyond the beginning – development that lasts a lifetime

Posted by , on 4 November 2025

Traditionally, developmental biology has been considered the study of the embryo, and significant events such as metamorphosis or birth signify the pinnacle of development. However,

Limb regeneration guide for axolotls

Posted by , on 28 September 2025

A recent paper from Otsuki and colleagues investigates the molecular mechanisms driving limb regeneration in axolotl

The Node Time Machine – August 2010

Posted by , on 27 August 2025

At the end of each month, I pick the same month from a random year from the past 15 years of the Node, and take a look at what people ...

July in preprints

Posted by , on 12 August 2025

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv.

The Node Time Machine – July 2013

Posted by , on 31 July 2025

At the end of each month, I pick the same month from a random year from the past 15 years of the Node, and take a look at what people ...

June in preprints

Posted by , on 7 July 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 ...

The Node Time Machine – June 2013

Posted by , on 27 June 2025

At the end of each month, I pick the same month from a random year from the past 15 years of the Node, and take a look at what people ...

The Node Time Machine – May 2016

Posted by , on 30 May 2025

At the end of each month, I pick the same month from a random year from the past 15 years of the Node, and take a look at what people ...

Hybrid brains and the search for what makes us human

Posted by , on 28 May 2025

It lives. It lives! What lives, you may ask? Well, somewhere in a lab at Yale University, one young scientist has stuck human brain cells and chimp brain cells together ...

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