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Monthly preprint list

Monthly preprint lists

The remarkable growth of preprints in biology in the past few years has accelerated sharing of data and ideas but also given scientists a new challenge: how to keep up with this burgeoning literature? To help out, in 2016 we started collating preprints by topic, and these monthly posts have become a popular feature in the community.

Recent posts

June in preprints

Posted by , on 4 July 2018

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other related) preprints! This month we found a tranche of preprints getting deep into the mechanics of fly development, a clutch …
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Call for new preLighters

Posted by , on 6 June 2018

preLights, The Company of Biologist’s new preprint highlighting service, has now been running for more than three months. At the heart of preLights is the community of early-career researchers who …

May in preprints

Posted by , on 1 June 2018

Welcome to our monthly trawl for preprints in developmental biology (plus those hopefully relevant for developmental biologists). May featured the usual catch of fascinating and beautiful work across the spectrum …

April in preprints

Posted by , on 3 May 2018

Another bumper month for developmental biology and related preprints, this time featuring spiders, lampreys, amphiouxus and plenty of zebrafish, worm and fly research. Also a big month for fans of …

March in preprints

Posted by , on 4 April 2018

One of the most talked about preprints this month was a corrigendum to that Nature Methods paper reporting widespread off-target mutations following CRISPR-Cas9 editing in  mice. The paper was challenged quickly on …

February in preprints

Posted by , on 1 March 2018

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. Let us know if we missed anything.   On February 20th, The Company of Biologists launched preLights, a community-led …

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Our full archive going back to 2010 is filterable by category, tag and date.

Updated on 16 March 2021