Developing news

Welcome to our light-hearted look at the goings on in the world of developmental biology in the last two weeks (or so).

Call to action

NIH funding for maintaining the model organism databases (MODs) we know and love is under threat.

Make sure your opinion is heard: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5NGLNNJ

For more background see the following Perspective article in Development https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/148/19/dev200193/272305/Model-organism-databases-are-in-jeopardy

Talking points on Twitter

After the excitement and debate covered in the previous Developing news blog, the #devbio twittersphere was a little less controversial these past two weeks, but these are the topics we enjoyed.

Does collecting data drive biology forward?

• An article in Nature discussing the importance of hypothesis driven science, not just data collection

Some thoughts from the #devbio community

#Postdoc appreciation week

• Last week was postdoc appreciation week and we loved that our twitter feed was full of students, fellow postdocs and PIs giving thanks to their colleagues. We have collated all the tweets here

Careers tweets

We have also picked out three career-related tweets and the resulting discussions

#devbio in preLights

Halo-Seq is a novel technique for uncovering where RNAs hide within cells, providing a new and exciting approach to RNA labelling.

Rapid redistribution and extensive binding of NANOG and GATA6 at shared regulatory elements underlie specification of divergent cell fates

Metabolic regulation of species-specific developmental rates

Self-organized morphogenesis of a human neural tube in vitro by geometric constraints

Thanks to the #DevBio community for sharing their thoughts, especially on twitter. If you have some news that you think we should share with the developmental biology community on our blog, please get in touch at thenode@biologists.com. If you are interested in getting involved with writing preLights you can find out more here.

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