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preLighters’ choice – A curated selection of recent preprints

Posted by , on 13 May 2026

preLighters with expertise across developmental and stem cell biology nominate a few recent developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints they’re excited about and explain in a few paragraph ...

A Business Engagement Fund project to test Lipid Nanoparticle (LNP)-mediated mRNA delivery and efficacy

Posted by , on 12 May 2026

The Medical Research Council provided £750K in funding for the National Mouse Genetics Network’s Business Engagement Fund with a call for applications in early 2023. The Business Engagement Fund supported ...

The signal that got through

Posted by , on 24 April 2026

Although Marianne and I first met at the Aspen Center for Physics, USA, in the summer of 2022, our scientific careers had, in a sense, been pre-slated to converge.

Unboxing data

Posted by , on 24 April 2026

Thanks to community campaigns (#barbarplots) and opinionated papers (Drummond & Vowler, 2011; Weisgerber et al 2015) the dynamite plunger plot (a bar plot together with an error bar) has been ...

Some Cancer Drugs Disrupt Taste by Changing the Cells Inside Taste Buds, Study Shows

Posted by , on 21 April 2026

In a new study published in Development, researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz may have identified why many cancer patients say food suddenly tastes unpleasant during treatment.

Featured resource: MorphoNet 2.0

Posted by , on 14 April 2026

In this ‘Featured resource’ post, we learn about the data and functionalities available at MorphoNet 2.0.

From fate to form: the journey to whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics

Posted by , on 2 April 2026

Yinan Wan shares the inside story of an ambitious journey to whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics.

February in preprints

Posted by , on 31 March 2026

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints.

January in preprints

Posted by , on 5 February 2026

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

Behind the paper: “Spatially organized cellular communities shape functional tissue architecture in the pancreas”

Posted by , on 28 January 2026

Alejo Torres Cano's story on their recent paper describing how spatially organized cellular communities shape...

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