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Postnatal neurodevelopment: Inside out or the reverse?

Posted by , on 12 March 2025

The people behind the papers – Juan Yang and Xuanmao Chen In mammalian embryos, brains develop from the inside out, with younger neurons moving to the outer layers in a ...

Fish, Frogs, Friends, Lend me your Ears.

Posted by , on 6 March 2025

Humans and other tetrapods evolved from aquatic fish. In making this leap, tetrapods evolved lungs to breathe air and lost respiratory gills. It is tempting to intuit that lungs evolved ...

February in preprints

Posted by , on 4 March 2025

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

The Arterial Maze: Unveiling the Origin of Pial Collaterals in Mouse Brain

Posted by , on 19 February 2025

Written by Swarnadip Ghosh & Soumyashree Das Behind the Paper Story of “Development of pial collaterals by extension of pre-existing artery tips” What we do and how we do it? ...

First issues – Audrey across the Atlantic

Posted by , on 13 February 2025

Continuing the ‘First issues’ series, in this post we’ll find out more about Audrey Muggleton-Harris, who published in Development’s first issue in 1987. Audrey Muggleton-Harris was born in London, England, ...

Orphan nuclear receptors: individual and collective roles in mouse development

Posted by , on 10 February 2025

The elusive importance of NR5A2 and ESRRB as pluripotency factors Our paper entitled “Nr5a2 is dispensable for zygotic genome activation but essential for morula development” is the culmination of a ...

January in preprints

Posted by , on 5 February 2025

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

Kumayl Alloo: A Trailblazing Neuroscientist Bridging Gaps in Parkinson’s Research

Posted by , on 4 February 2025

For many years, Parkinson’s disease (PD) research has predominantly focused on its well-known motor symptoms, such as tremors, rigidity, and bradykinesia. However, nonmotor symptoms, including anxiety, depression, and cognitive issues, ...

Deforming Nuclei: a way to move through the crowd!

Posted by , on 3 February 2025

In their recent paper, Maia-Gil and colleagues explored whether and how nuclear properties can influence nuclear positioning in vivo. Their work revealed that in the densely packed retinal zebrafish neuroepithelium, ...

Divide and conquer. Or don't divide but still conquer.

Posted by , on 25 January 2025

Behind the paper story for “Cell state transitions are decoupled from cell division during early embryo development“ As embryos develop, their cells perform two fundamental tasks: they divide to populate ...

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