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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

This month in preLights – July

Posted by , on 8 August 2018

Welcome to our monthly selection of developmental biology (and related) preLights     preLights, the preprint highlighting service supported by The Company of Biologists, has now reached over 150 posts …
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July in preprints

Posted by , on 2 August 2018

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other related/just plain cool) preprints.    In one of the most contentious (at least on Twitter!) pieces of preprint news in …

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 …

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 …

Preprint servers we use for the lists

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preLights is the preprint highlights service run by the biological community and supported by The Company of Biologists.

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

Updated on 16 March 2021