Cells & Development
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'Cells & Development' journal (formerly 'Mechanisms of Development'). Official journal of the International Society of Developmental Biology isdb.bsky.social
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· Nov 15
From January 2021 MoD will become “CELLS & DEVELOPMENT”, subtitle: “CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY AND THEIR QUANTITATIVE APPROCHES”. We expect that C&D will become a forum for interdisciplinary research combining biology, physics and mathematics to study cell and dev biology.
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Paper alert! Mechanical conditions preventing live cell extrusion during primary neurulation in amniotes. @sabr-bio.bsky.social article published as pre-proof in @cellsdev.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Paper alert! Mechanical conditions preventing live cell extrusion during primary neurulation in amniotes. @sabr-bio.bsky.social article published as pre-proof in @cellsdev.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
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For this week #FluorescenceFriday, we'll be treated with one of our favourite animal models 🐸 . Here is a Xenopus laevis embryo imaged with a Lightsheet microscope showing macrophage migration.
Purple🟣 = ectoderm nuclei, Red🔴 = macrophages.
📹: Hoang Anh Le, postdoc in the Mayor lab, UCL.
Purple🟣 = ectoderm nuclei, Red🔴 = macrophages.
📹: Hoang Anh Le, postdoc in the Mayor lab, UCL.
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
For this week #FluorescenceFriday, we'll be treated with one of our favourite animal models 🐸 . Here is a Xenopus laevis embryo imaged with a Lightsheet microscope showing macrophage migration.
Purple🟣 = ectoderm nuclei, Red🔴 = macrophages.
📹: Hoang Anh Le, postdoc in the Mayor lab, UCL.
Purple🟣 = ectoderm nuclei, Red🔴 = macrophages.
📹: Hoang Anh Le, postdoc in the Mayor lab, UCL.
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📢Our latest #preprint list is now up on FocalPlane
This week we highlight the latest tools and techniques in microscopy. Drop us a note if we’ve missed a preprint that you’ve enjoyed reading.
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/11/28/m...
This week we highlight the latest tools and techniques in microscopy. Drop us a note if we’ve missed a preprint that you’ve enjoyed reading.
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/11/28/m...
Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging - FocalPlane
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November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
📢Our latest #preprint list is now up on FocalPlane
This week we highlight the latest tools and techniques in microscopy. Drop us a note if we’ve missed a preprint that you’ve enjoyed reading.
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/11/28/m...
This week we highlight the latest tools and techniques in microscopy. Drop us a note if we’ve missed a preprint that you’ve enjoyed reading.
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/11/28/m...
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Registration deadline 20th Dec! We have generous travel grants for early career researchers! April is a beautiful time to visit China!
Our interdisciplinary @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social workshop on Biophysical and Molecular Mechanisms of Animal Homeostasis and Repair will take place in beautiful Haining, China, 6-10 April 2026. Exciting line up of international speakers! Register now: meetings.embo.org/event/26-hom...
Interfacing biophysical and molecular mechanisms of animal homeostasis and repair
The control of animal homeostasis and repair has been studied for decades, mostly from a molecular and biochemical perspective. Recent research shows that biophysical factors, such as mechanical forc…
meetings.embo.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Registration deadline 20th Dec! We have generous travel grants for early career researchers! April is a beautiful time to visit China!
Tissue-resident macrophages are doing more than just protecting from infection. In this interesting paper, René Fernando Abarca-Buis et al shows that they can promote reepithelialization and blastema formation and regulate the maturation of chondrocytes. Check it out here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Tissue-resident macrophages are doing more than just protecting from infection. In this interesting paper, René Fernando Abarca-Buis et al shows that they can promote reepithelialization and blastema formation and regulate the maturation of chondrocytes. Check it out here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
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Think about craniofacial biology in sunny California😎! Don't forget to submit an abstract for the 2026 GRC Craniofacial. Many talk slots available from abstract selections. Deadline for talk abstracts 14 Dec, coming soon.... ☠️🐭🐟🐸🧬 #craniofacial #genetics #neuralcrest www.grc.org/craniofacial...
2026 Craniofacial Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Craniofacial Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Think about craniofacial biology in sunny California😎! Don't forget to submit an abstract for the 2026 GRC Craniofacial. Many talk slots available from abstract selections. Deadline for talk abstracts 14 Dec, coming soon.... ☠️🐭🐟🐸🧬 #craniofacial #genetics #neuralcrest www.grc.org/craniofacial...
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It is not often that Sialoglycoproteins and sialyltransferases are mentioned during early development. This interesting review from the lab of Katia Cailliau brings the interesting biology of sialic acid into the context of #devbio, particularly during blastula formation.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It is not often that Sialoglycoproteins and sialyltransferases are mentioned during early development. This interesting review from the lab of Katia Cailliau brings the interesting biology of sialic acid into the context of #devbio, particularly during blastula formation.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
It is not often that Sialoglycoproteins and sialyltransferases are mentioned during early development. This interesting review from the lab of Katia Cailliau brings the interesting biology of sialic acid into the context of #devbio, particularly during blastula formation.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It is not often that Sialoglycoproteins and sialyltransferases are mentioned during early development. This interesting review from the lab of Katia Cailliau brings the interesting biology of sialic acid into the context of #devbio, particularly during blastula formation.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
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yep, this is very concerning.
Some have already tried to raise the alarm in 2022, and since then, the “quality” of AI-generated images has only improved...
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
Some have already tried to raise the alarm in 2022, and since then, the “quality” of AI-generated images has only improved...
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
yep, this is very concerning.
Some have already tried to raise the alarm in 2022, and since then, the “quality” of AI-generated images has only improved...
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
Some have already tried to raise the alarm in 2022, and since then, the “quality” of AI-generated images has only improved...
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
We love zebrafish too! <3 #FluorescenceFriday #devbio
Happy #FluorescenceFriday. This beautiful video shows slice by slice section of a zebrafish embryo's head. The embryo is almost completely transparent, proving that zebrafish is an amazing model system for microscopy.
Brightfield, red = actin, blue = DAPI
📹: Postdoc Matyas BL (@Mongera lab, UCL)
Brightfield, red = actin, blue = DAPI
📹: Postdoc Matyas BL (@Mongera lab, UCL)
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We love zebrafish too! <3 #FluorescenceFriday #devbio
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Happy #FluorescenceFriday. This beautiful video shows slice by slice section of a zebrafish embryo's head. The embryo is almost completely transparent, proving that zebrafish is an amazing model system for microscopy.
Brightfield, red = actin, blue = DAPI
📹: Postdoc Matyas BL (@Mongera lab, UCL)
Brightfield, red = actin, blue = DAPI
📹: Postdoc Matyas BL (@Mongera lab, UCL)
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Happy #FluorescenceFriday. This beautiful video shows slice by slice section of a zebrafish embryo's head. The embryo is almost completely transparent, proving that zebrafish is an amazing model system for microscopy.
Brightfield, red = actin, blue = DAPI
📹: Postdoc Matyas BL (@Mongera lab, UCL)
Brightfield, red = actin, blue = DAPI
📹: Postdoc Matyas BL (@Mongera lab, UCL)
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This week's #FluorescenceFriday, we'll be treated with one of the classical models of #devbio, the neural crest cells. Here is a beautiful video of neural crest cells with GFP-tagged focal adhesion kinase (🔵) and LifeAct-RFP (🟣) migrating on a Fibronectin matrix.
📹: Adam Shellard
📹: Adam Shellard
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This week's #FluorescenceFriday, we'll be treated with one of the classical models of #devbio, the neural crest cells. Here is a beautiful video of neural crest cells with GFP-tagged focal adhesion kinase (🔵) and LifeAct-RFP (🟣) migrating on a Fibronectin matrix.
📹: Adam Shellard
📹: Adam Shellard
Call for papers: Chilean Developmental Biology: at Home and Around the World - Cells & Development.
If you're a Chile-based scientist and Chilean researcher working abroad, please consider submit to us for this special issue.
‼️Submission deadline: 30 June 2026
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If you're a Chile-based scientist and Chilean researcher working abroad, please consider submit to us for this special issue.
‼️Submission deadline: 30 June 2026
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Call for papers: Chilean Developmental Biology: at Home and Around the World - Cells & Development.
If you're a Chile-based scientist and Chilean researcher working abroad, please consider submit to us for this special issue.
‼️Submission deadline: 30 June 2026
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
If you're a Chile-based scientist and Chilean researcher working abroad, please consider submit to us for this special issue.
‼️Submission deadline: 30 June 2026
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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🚨✨🐸 Very excited to share the latest work I’m part of:
“Developmental and adult expression of the Meis2 transcription factor in the CNS of Xenopus laevis”.
Read below 👇
DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fnan...
#Neurogenesis #BrainDevelopment #Neuroscience #EvoDevo #DevBio #Xenopus
“Developmental and adult expression of the Meis2 transcription factor in the CNS of Xenopus laevis”.
Read below 👇
DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fnan...
#Neurogenesis #BrainDevelopment #Neuroscience #EvoDevo #DevBio #Xenopus
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🚨✨🐸 Very excited to share the latest work I’m part of:
“Developmental and adult expression of the Meis2 transcription factor in the CNS of Xenopus laevis”.
Read below 👇
DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fnan...
#Neurogenesis #BrainDevelopment #Neuroscience #EvoDevo #DevBio #Xenopus
“Developmental and adult expression of the Meis2 transcription factor in the CNS of Xenopus laevis”.
Read below 👇
DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fnan...
#Neurogenesis #BrainDevelopment #Neuroscience #EvoDevo #DevBio #Xenopus
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Meis2 is a transcriptional factor involved in neurodevelopment. This paper characterises its distribution in the developing brain of Xenopus leavis. Check it out!
🚨✨🐸 Very excited to share the latest work I’m part of:
“Developmental and adult expression of the Meis2 transcription factor in the CNS of Xenopus laevis”.
Read below 👇
DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fnan...
#Neurogenesis #BrainDevelopment #Neuroscience #EvoDevo #DevBio #Xenopus
“Developmental and adult expression of the Meis2 transcription factor in the CNS of Xenopus laevis”.
Read below 👇
DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fnan...
#Neurogenesis #BrainDevelopment #Neuroscience #EvoDevo #DevBio #Xenopus
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Meis2 is a transcriptional factor involved in neurodevelopment. This paper characterises its distribution in the developing brain of Xenopus leavis. Check it out!
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Sir John Gurdon was also the president of the @isdb.bsky.social from 1989-1992. He also facilitated or influenced the establishment of the @bsdb.bsky.social, @lasdb.bsky.social, many institutes, and generations of scientists, and worked with @biologists.bsky.social for decades. You will be missed.
"His secret weapons were an unquenchable curiosity and continuing hands-on experimentation at the bench with his beautiful frog embryos and oocytes".
A thoughtful tribute to the life of Sir John Gurdon by Edward M. De Robertis that we really recommend everyone to read.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
A thoughtful tribute to the life of Sir John Gurdon by Edward M. De Robertis that we really recommend everyone to read.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Sir John Gurdon was also the president of the @isdb.bsky.social from 1989-1992. He also facilitated or influenced the establishment of the @bsdb.bsky.social, @lasdb.bsky.social, many institutes, and generations of scientists, and worked with @biologists.bsky.social for decades. You will be missed.
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"His secret weapons were an unquenchable curiosity and continuing hands-on experimentation at the bench with his beautiful frog embryos and oocytes".
A thoughtful tribute to the life of Sir John Gurdon by Edward M. De Robertis that we really recommend everyone to read.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
A thoughtful tribute to the life of Sir John Gurdon by Edward M. De Robertis that we really recommend everyone to read.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"His secret weapons were an unquenchable curiosity and continuing hands-on experimentation at the bench with his beautiful frog embryos and oocytes".
A thoughtful tribute to the life of Sir John Gurdon by Edward M. De Robertis that we really recommend everyone to read.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
A thoughtful tribute to the life of Sir John Gurdon by Edward M. De Robertis that we really recommend everyone to read.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
"His secret weapons were an unquenchable curiosity and continuing hands-on experimentation at the bench with his beautiful frog embryos and oocytes".
A thoughtful tribute to the life of Sir John Gurdon by Edward M. De Robertis that we really recommend everyone to read.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
A thoughtful tribute to the life of Sir John Gurdon by Edward M. De Robertis that we really recommend everyone to read.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"His secret weapons were an unquenchable curiosity and continuing hands-on experimentation at the bench with his beautiful frog embryos and oocytes".
A thoughtful tribute to the life of Sir John Gurdon by Edward M. De Robertis that we really recommend everyone to read.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
A thoughtful tribute to the life of Sir John Gurdon by Edward M. De Robertis that we really recommend everyone to read.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
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We love frogs too 🐸!
🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
We love frogs too 🐸!
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🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio
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From the lab of Maxwell Heiman discussing the interesting topic of apical ECM and the function of sensing organs and how these ECM proteins can both mechanically and biochemically modulate the organ's functions.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
October 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
From the lab of Maxwell Heiman discussing the interesting topic of apical ECM and the function of sensing organs and how these ECM proteins can both mechanically and biochemically modulate the organ's functions.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
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From the lab of Brian Stramer discussing how the ECM actively involved in shaping embryo morphogenesis.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
October 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
From the lab of Brian Stramer discussing how the ECM actively involved in shaping embryo morphogenesis.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
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From the lab of Kenneth Yamada showing how mRNAs coding for basement membrane proteins are polarised apically in mouse embryonic salivary gland outer epithelial cells and are trafficked by microtubules.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
October 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
From the lab of Kenneth Yamada showing how mRNAs coding for basement membrane proteins are polarised apically in mouse embryonic salivary gland outer epithelial cells and are trafficked by microtubules.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...
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In the spirit 👻 of Freaky Friday 🎃, here is a beautiful yet eery video of zebrafish retina development showing horizontal cells (🔵) finding their way out of the crowded amacrine (🟠) layer to settle beneath the photoreceptors. Happy #Halloween!
🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social
🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In the spirit 👻 of Freaky Friday 🎃, here is a beautiful yet eery video of zebrafish retina development showing horizontal cells (🔵) finding their way out of the crowded amacrine (🟠) layer to settle beneath the photoreceptors. Happy #Halloween!
🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social
🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social
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The first original research paper from my lab is now out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tracheal development is an amazing model to study morphogenesis. There are great works out there that show how this tissue elongates, interconnects, and forms branches (1/n)
Tracheal development is an amazing model to study morphogenesis. There are great works out there that show how this tissue elongates, interconnects, and forms branches (1/n)
Adhesion to a common ECM mediates interdependence in tissue morphogenesis in Drosophila
For organs to be functional, the cells and tissues that constitute them must effectively interact with each other and coordinate their behaviours. Halfway during Drosophila embryogenesis, two lateral ...
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March 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The first original research paper from my lab is now out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tracheal development is an amazing model to study morphogenesis. There are great works out there that show how this tissue elongates, interconnects, and forms branches (1/n)
Tracheal development is an amazing model to study morphogenesis. There are great works out there that show how this tissue elongates, interconnects, and forms branches (1/n)