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June in preprints

Posted by , on 5 July 2019

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  Another big haul this month covering everything from great ape cerebral organoids to collectively contracting choanoflagellates, the genes that ...

Collaboration: All the things we cannot see (alone).

Posted by , on 3 June 2019

By Miriam Rosenberg and Suparna Ray Most of what we know about axial patterning in insects comes from decades of careful, beautiful work done in flies. Thanks to the genetic ...

May in preprints

Posted by , on 3 June 2019

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  This month evo-devo is particularly well represented (from choanoflagellates to Portuguese men of war), and there’s a slew of ...

Echoes of “Chromatin-Based Regulation of Development” workshop OR “to TAD or not to TAD”?

Posted by , on 14 May 2019

The non-profit publishing groups can make a real difference The very best part of being a scientist is cracking mysteries of the universe and what is in it. The second ...

April in preprints

Posted by , on 1 May 2019

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  This month was notable for a preponderance of plant development preprints, many molecular maps (supported by single cell sequencing), ...

Functional interrogation of the C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II in fruit flies

Posted by , on 24 April 2019

Feiyue Lu and David Gilmour tell the story behind their recent paper in Molecular Cell RNA polymerase II (Pol II) is the enzyme responsible for transcribing most genes in eukaryotes. The ...

New research uncovers how hot fish change sex

Posted by , on 23 April 2019

Press release from Development. You can also read the Research Highlight for this article. Researchers have identified the hormone that causes sex reversal of medaka fish growing in high temperatures. ...

March in preprints

Posted by , on 1 April 2019

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  This month we found three hydra preprints, lots of developmental mechanics, a typically hearty serving of single cell transcriptomic ...

February in preprints

Posted by , on 4 March 2019

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints.  February was notable for the amount of neural development, from retina to cortex and fly to fish. We also ...

Surprise findings turn up the temperature on the study of vernalization

Posted by , on 15 February 2019

Press Release from the John Innes Centre (link) New evidence has emerged about the agriculturally important process of vernalization in a development that could help farmers deal with financially damaging ...

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