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What can happen during a short stay at a marine station?

Posted by , on 26 May 2026

I was fortunate to receive an EMBRC-supported grant to carry out a small project on calcium imaging in sea urchin larvae at the Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV). ...

Molecular control of cardiac regeneration and repair

Posted by , on 20 May 2026

Position Overview: Research laboratory presentation The Marín-Juez laboratory, at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, is recruiting PhD students and postdoctoral fellows (up to 5 years fully funded position).  Our laboratory is interested ...

preLighters’ choice – A curated selection of recent preprints

Posted by , on 13 May 2026

Concise preprint highlights of recent developmental and stem cell biology papers prepared by the preLighter community.

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.

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