Inadequate imposters: Kupffer cells influence liver metabolism This Research Highlight showcases work by Nikola Makdissi, Daria J. Hirschmann, Elvira Mass (@masslab.bsky.social) and colleagues journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Getting to the heart of atrial cardiomyocyte identity This Research Highlight showcases work by Irfan Kathiriya @irfankathiriya.bsky.social, Benoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social and colleagues at @gladstoneinst.bsky.social & @ucsfanesthesia.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Development is pleased to sponsor the upcoming Weinstein Cardiovascular Development & Regeneration Conference, taking place in New York, USA, 6-8 May 2026. Register now: weinstein-conference.oa-event.com

In preprints: shedding light – chemogenetic induction of menstruation in mice Aishwarya V. Bhurke and Ripla Arora from @aroralab.bsky.social discuss the recent preprint by @cagricevrim.bsky.social, @karalmckinley.bsky.social and colleagues on the X-mens menstruation model. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Bacteria-dependent ecdysone lengthens hungry stomachs This Research Highlight showcases work from Longwei Bai (@longweibai.bsky.social), François Leulier (@francoisleulier.bsky.social) and colleagues at @igflyon.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Development of the blood–brain barrier In this Review, Benjamin D. Gastfriend and Richard Daneman discuss recent advances in understanding blood-brain barrier development, as well as unanswered questions in the field. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

The most recent addition to our academic team, Associate Editor Anna Bigas, will be speaking at the Dubai Stem Cell Congress that starts next week on Saturday 7 February. Chat with Anna about publishing #haematopoiesis in Development. journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ed...

Congratulations to @rashmi-priya.bsky.social on winning the 2026 Women in Cell Biology Model from @bscb-official.bsky.social. Rashmi is a Guest Editor of our current special issue on the extracellular environment: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex... We also interviewed Rashmi in 2022⬇️

Congratulations to @giuliapaci.bsky.social, one of our latest Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows, on winning the @bscb-official.bsky.social 2026 Postdoc Medal. You can learn more about Giulia's research in her interview doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Development Editor Jim Wells is attending the Takeda Science Foundation symposium, 'ORGANOID 4D: Development, Disease, Diversity and Discovery', starting on Friday 23 January. Use the opportunity to meet Jim and speak about publishing in Development. journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ed...

Our Editor-in-Chief, @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social, will be attending the St. Anna CCRI Symposium on Cell Fate in Cancer and Development meeting, starting on Friday 23 January. Please speak to James about publishing your research in Development. journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/aims

📢Call for papers. Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya 📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex... #DevBio

Our first issue of Vol 153 (2026) is complete! On the cover: 3D image of the apical Drosophila pupal eye with depth-coding applied, showing a dome-like ommatidia. See the Research Article by Bhattarai ( @abhibhattarai.bsky.social) et al. from @ruthjohnsonlab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/dev....

chinmo provides insights into the evolution of insect metamorphosis This Research Highlight showcases work by Hana Nagata and Yuichiro Suzuki from @wellesley.edu. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme is open. Apply by 2 February 2026 for support in transitioning from a postdoc to a independent group leader, including: ▪️mentoring ▪️leadership training ▪️profile raising ▪️peer–peer network ➡️ www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

Excited for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social's "Stem Cell Models in Embryology" meeting next month? Our Reviews Editor @ingridtsang.bsky.social al will also be attending - feel free to talk to them about our journal and other @biologists.bsky.social activities there!

MEIOC facilitates meiotic entry in the mammalian female germ line This Research Highlight showcases work by Esther G. Ushuhuda, Maria M. Mikedis (@mariamikedis.bsky.social) and colleagues: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Please join us tomorrow for #DevPres

We are pleased to be a media partner for the @embl.org @embo.org Symposium - Biological oscillators: rhythms and synchronisation across scales #EESBioOsc Abstract submission: 14 Jan 2026 Registration (On-site): 10 Feb 2026 Registration (Virtual): 17 Mar 2026 bit.ly/49mgD2Q

In preprints: the deep evolutionary roots of Cajal-Retzius cells Juliette S. Morel and Frederic Causeret (@fredcauseret.bsky.social) discuss two preprint articles on the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells and how this might have shaped vertebrate brain morphogenesis. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

The hard truth about how hard it is to publish in Development Editor-in-Chief @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social leads our team of Academic Editors in addressing the perception that Development is ‘too hard to publish in’ by discussing the journal's review process. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

We're happy to highlight two very exciting preprints from @idoiaeu.bsky.social and @matosches.bsky.social about the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells. Find our perspective in @dev-journal.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

I’ve been so lucky to be part of the PI Programme by @biologists.bsky.social this past year and met so many incredible people! Come hear us talk about what keeps us up at night this Wednesday!

I’d like to highlight @felicityhsu.bsky.social ‘s recently publish work in @dev-journal.bsky.social ! She showed that the regeneration blastema consists of concentric zones of differential growth and translation driven by Myc and Tor. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Issue 24 is complete! Marking the end of #biologists100, the cover features members of our community, including some featured 'extraordinary biologists' #100biologists, as well as our Editors and in-house team. Thank you to all our authors and reviewers, past and present, for their contributions.

Happy to announce the publication of our foray into studying what happens to the transcriptomes of nuclei when cells fuse to form a syncytium. More to follow in the coming few years. One really wonderful thing about the Company of Biologists is that's it's free to publish there for my university!

A nice profile of @marliesoomen.bsky.social, one of our 2025 cohort of Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows. You can also read our interview with Marlies in the journal doi.org/10.1242/dev....

The Company of Biologists: a century in review In the last Editorial of 2025, Claire Moulton, Saanjbati Adhikari and Katie Ward reflect a year of #biologists100 celebrations and the 100-year history of our publisher @biologists.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

If you are considering where to publish new research on extracellular/non-autonomous/geometric/physical cause and effect in development, consider our @dev-journal.bsky.social special issue, with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social!

We welcome submissions to our upcoming special issue on the extracellular environment, guest edited by @hugheslabpenn.bsky.social and @rashmi-priya.bsky.social. Send your #devbio, #regeneration and #stemcell papers by 1 March 2026. For more information, see journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...

In preprints: understanding leaf form for better crop designs Neha Bhatia from @slcuplants.bsky.social discusses two preprints on soybean leaf development by Chancelor Clark & colleagues and Bishal Tamang & colleagues doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Join us next week for #DevPres to hear 3 of our PI fellows talk about the environment & evolution 14 January 15:00 GMT/UTC With talks from @ethanewe.bsky.social, @maxfarnworth.bsky.social & @sonyawiden.bsky.social, chaired by @pritiagarwal.bsky.social. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #DevPres

Hedgehog and Drosophila germ cell migration In their #OpenAccess Review, Girish Deshpande, Ji Hoon Kim, Caitlin Hanlon, Paul Schedl and Deborah Andrew discuss how Hedgehog attracts migrating germ cells in Drosophila doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Last but certainly not least, our final extraordinary biologist featured is Saanjbati Adhikari, a @dev-journal.bsky.social Reviews Editor, a Cross-Title Features Editor for our 100-year anniversary and a former preLighter @prelights.bsky.social. #100biologists

Fuse it or lose it: cell fusion drives developmental progression This Research Highlight showcases work by Owen Funk, Daniel Levy and David Fay: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Saving face: SALL4 is required for early specification of craniofacial precursors This Research Highlight showcases work by Martina Demurtas, Marco Trizzino (@marcotrizzino.bsky.social) and colleagues: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

The prickly consequences of Hedgehog de-repression on cranial neural tube closure This Research Highlight showcases work by Eric R. Brooks @tomorrowbot.bsky.social, Sun-Hee Hwang, Kevin A. White and Saikat Mukhopadhyay: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Compensation in pair-rule gene regulation This Research Highlight showcases the work of Matthew Fischer, Leslie Pick and colleagues journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

TMO5 orchestrates organ patterning in plant shoots This Research Highlight showcases work by Abdul Kareem, Carolyn Ohno and Marcus Heisler (@heisler-lab.bsky.social): journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Transitions in development – an interview with Alejandro Torres-Sánchez We caught up with Alejandro @torres-sanchez.bsky.social from @embl.org Barcelona to talk about his path to becoming a group leader, ongoing collaborations and addressing gender imbalance in the lab. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Delighted & honoured to have given the Jean Brachet Memorial Lecture for the International Society for Differentiation Thanks to the Indian SDB for hosting and to Sally Dunwoodie for the generous introduction.

Issue 23 is now complete On the cover: Lysosome (magenta)-rich enterocytes (nuclei in cyan, actin in green) in the neonatal mouse ileum contain large lysosomal vacuoles that facilitate intracellular digestion. See Research Article by Block et al. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

The Company of Biologists Travelling Fellowships programme: a commitment to support the next generation of scientists Our Reviews Editor Saanjbati Adhikari surveys 35 years of @biologists.bsky.social's Travelling Fellowships programme for #biologists100: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

As part of our #biologists100 celebrations, historian Nick Hopwood looks back over the history of our journal and the story of how we came to be named Development. Read 'Identities of an embryology journal in a molecular age; or, How Development got its name' here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

A palp-able conservation of Wnt signalling in neuroectoderm patterning This Research Highlight showcases the work of @agnesroure.bsky.social, Rafath Chowdhury and @darras-sebastien.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Issue 22 is now complete The cover features a human hepatoblast organoid - see the Research Article by Ekaterini Zacharis, Ludovic Vallier and colleagues: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Looking forward to a few days at the InSDB-ISD meeting @insdb.bsky.social. Always happy to discuss @dev-journal.bsky.social

We are also featuring developmental biologist K. Vijayraghavan, a @dev-journal.bsky.social Advisory Board member and a Development and @biologyopen.bsky.social author, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists @kvijayraghavan.bsky.social

Development's Editor-in-Chief @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social will be attending the upcoming InSDB-ISD Joint Meeting from 14-17 December 2025 at IISER Berhampur, India. @insdb.bsky.social Speak to James about your next Development paper.

We were delighted to welcome our most recent Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows to our offices at @biologists.bsky.social for leadership training. Find out more about our PI fellows and how to apply here: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi... Application deadline: 2 February 2026.