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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.

October in preprints

Posted by , on 12 November 2025

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

A bittersweet acceptance: Between a manuscript and grief

Posted by , on 10 November 2025

I was so excited when I received notification that my first first-author research paper was accepted. My excitement quickly turned into sadness with the realization that my co-PI was not ...

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,

September in preprints

Posted by , on 31 October 2025

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

Role of fat body lipid transport in Drosophila neurodevelopment

Posted by , on 27 October 2025

I never imagined that tiny fruit flies could reveal so much about the brain and its functions until I spent my summer in Alex Gould’s laboratory at the Francis Crick ...

Characterising and visualising cell-type marker genes in Glossina morsitans morsitans.

Posted by , on 27 October 2025

Tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) are the sole vectors of African trypanosomiasis – sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock. The midgut is the site of blood digestion, symbiont interactions, ...

Delving into the complexity of hematopoietic stem cell genesis, fate, and developmental niches: novel insights from the zebrafish embryo and larva

Posted by , on 22 October 2025

Léa and I take turns sharing our exciting and fruitful collaboration aimed at tracking emerging and newly born hematopoietic stem cells to their implantation sites in developmental niches, using the ...

Sniffing out olfactory neurogenesis

Posted by , on 21 October 2025

Sriivatsan G Rajan and Ankur Saxena share their 'Show and tell' post looking at sensory neurogenesis.

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

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