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First issues – Audrey across the Atlantic

Posted by , on 13 February 2025

Continuing the ‘First issues’ series, in this post we’ll find out more about Audrey Muggleton-Harris, who published in Development’s first issue in 1987. Audrey Muggleton-Harris was born in London, England, ...

First issues - breaking newt

Posted by , on 12 February 2025

As part of our ‘first issues’ series to mark The Company of Biologists’ 100th anniversary, Development’s in-house team are researching the authors of articles published in the first issues of ...

Development presents... call for self nominations

Posted by , on 11 February 2025

Launched in 2020, Development presents… is a monthly Zoom webinar series covering the fields of developmental biology, stem cells and regeneration. Each webinar features three speakers who present short talks ...

First issues – culture most fowl

Posted by , on 11 February 2025

This post is part of our ‘first issues’ series on the Node – looking at some of the papers, and the researchers behind them, that appeared in the first issues ...

Orphan nuclear receptors: individual and collective roles in mouse development

Posted by , on 10 February 2025

The elusive importance of NR5A2 and ESRRB as pluripotency factors Our paper entitled “Nr5a2 is dispensable for zygotic genome activation but essential for morula development” is the culmination of a ...

First issues – publishing developmental biology through the decades

Posted by , on 10 February 2025

In the latest issue of Development, you can read about the journal's history since launching as Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology (JEEM) in 1953 (Eve, 2025).

Developing news — what are people talking about on Bluesky

Posted by , on 6 February 2025

We’re only just over a month into 2025, and lots have happened already. In this ‘Developing news’ post, we’ve collated a few Bluesky posts about topics that have been on ...

January in preprints

Posted by , on 5 February 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 ...

BBSRC-funded position to study resolution of inflammation

Posted by , on 4 February 2025

A BBSRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Associate position is available (18 months) to study resolution of inflammation using the Drosophila model is available in the Evans lab. We are looking for an ...

Deforming Nuclei: a way to move through the crowd!

Posted by , on 3 February 2025

In their recent paper, Maia-Gil and colleagues explored whether and how nuclear properties can influence nuclear positioning in vivo. Their work revealed that in the densely packed retinal zebrafish neuroepithelium, ...

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