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Nano Injections, Big Discoveries: The Journey to Map Neural and Inner Ear Lineages

Posted by , on 8 May 2025

Co-authored by Sandra de Haan and Jingyan He In our recently published paper ‘Ectoderm barcoding reveals neural and cochlear compartmentalization‘, we utilized ultrasound-guided in utero nano injections to deliver heritable DNA barcodes ...

The end of an era

Posted by , on 6 May 2025

As you may have seen in an earlier post, I’m moving on from Development after 13+ years as the journal’s Executive Editor. The good news (for me at least!) is ...

April in preprints

Posted by , on 6 May 2025

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

Featured image with Özge Özgüç: the Node–FocalPlane image competition

Posted by , on 6 May 2025

We find out more about the story behind Özge Özgüç’s image, which was the winner of the competition.

The Fat of the Matter: To know a fly, To know ourselves #MetabolismMondays

Posted by , on 5 May 2025

All the world’s a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism This week, we delve into the story of Dr. Lianna W. Watt, a ...

When did our flexible and lubricated joints evolve?

Posted by , on 30 April 2025

[Behind the paper story of “Synovial joints were present in the common ancestor of jawed fish but lacking in jawless fish”.] Synovial joints are marvels of biological evolution where two ...

Research Assistant in Cardiovascular Medicine

Posted by , on 30 April 2025

This position is for a talented and enthusiastic research assistant to work on a British Heart Foundation funded project focusing on the investigation of the molecular determinants of epicardial epithelial-to-mesenchymal ...

Cell-ebrating 100 years of The Company of Biologists: Perspectives from two PhD students

Posted by , on 30 April 2025

BSDB Report on the Biologists @ 100 conference co-written by Simran Singh and Renato Duarte Dos Santos.

SciArt profile: Margot Smit

Posted by , on 30 April 2025

In this SciArt profile, we meet Margot Smit, a plant developmental biologist whose lab is in the ZMBP, University of Tübingen. Margot enjoys linocut printmaking of designs inspired by Arabidopsis ...

Re-growing adult organs: mothers do it best

Posted by , on 30 April 2025

Tomotsune Ameku tells the story behind the paper "Growth of the maternal intestine during reproduction"

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