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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

preLights – Preprint highlights, selected by the biological community

Posted by , on 29 January 2018

preLights is a new preprint highlights service supported by The Company of Biologists, the not-for-profit publisher which hosts the Node via one of its five journals, Development. The site is currently being …
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December in preprints

Posted by , on 4 January 2018

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. Let us know if we missed anything.   In their end of year round up, Science magazine picked ‘Biology …

November in preprints

Posted by , on 5 December 2017

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. Let us know if we missed anything.   This month in preprint news – here at The Company of Biologists, …

October in preprints

Posted by , on 2 November 2017

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. Let us know if we missed anything.   October was a monster month for preprinting (a burst of post-summer …

September in preprints

Posted by , on 3 October 2017

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. See last year’s introductory post for background, and let us know if we missed anything.   This month features butterfly eyespots, brain development in …

August in preprints

Posted by , on 4 September 2017

Our latest monthly trawl for developmental biology (and other cool) preprints. See last year’s introductory post for background, and let us know if we missed anything It all went very meta this month with …

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