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Ascidian embryonic cells offer clues to the evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest cells and neuromesodermal progenitors

Posted by , on 11 June 2024

Read the story behind the paper "Ascidian embryonic cells with properties of neural-crest cells and neuromesodermal progenitors of vertebrates".

May in preprints

Posted by , on 7 June 2024

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

 Ancient origin of the vertebrate sympathetic nervous system

Posted by , on 1 June 2024

A recent paper “Neural crest origin of sympathetic neurons at the dawn of vertebrates” challenges the prevailing dogma that the sympathetic ganglia arose only in jawed vertebrates. Instead, based on ...

How do jellyfish regenerate their tentacles?

Posted by , on 27 May 2024

Read the story behind the paper "Distinct stem-like cell populations facilitate functional regeneration of the Cladonema medusa tentacle".

April in preprints

Posted by , on 6 May 2024

A list of developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints uploaded in April.

Embryos in hungry mouse mums postpone development

Posted by , on 15 April 2024

A press release from Development It’s challenging to sustain a pregnancy when food is short, or conditions are otherwise tough. That’s why many mammalian embryos can postpone their growth to ...

March in preprints

Posted by , on 8 April 2024

Here's our monthly trawl for preprints in developmental and stem cell biology (related fields).

The homeobox – 40 years of discovery

Posted by , on 2 April 2024

An Editorial in Development, introducing the collection of articles showcasing the impact of the discovery of the homeobox.

An afternoon in the museum with an exploded skull and a 3.5m python skeleton

Posted by , on 19 March 2024

The people and the research behind the exhibition ‘Growing a backbone’ at the University Museum of Zoology (Cambridge, UK).

Diversity drives discovery in developmental plasticity

Posted by , on 15 March 2024

This is an excerpt from the Editorial by Patricia Wright and Kathleen Gilmour, editors of Journal of Experimental Biology’s Special Issue “Developmental Plasticity: From Mechanisms to Evolutionary Processes“. Understanding the ...

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