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.

We are also highlighting Clotilde Cadart, who was part of @dev-journal.bsky.social's inaugural Pathway to Independence Programme cohort and a co-organiser of the Company Workshop on cell size and growth, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists @clotilde-cadart.bsky.social

Ready for #EMBOevoChromo25? Come say hi and feel free to pick up one of our #chromatin #evolution related Development at a glance posters by @robertife.bsky.social, Laura Thomas, Deneen Wellik and others 🤩

Learn more about @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence Programme - supporting the transition of postdocs to group leaders Catch up on where the 2022 PI fellows are now Apply to become a 2026 PI fellow journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Our Editors will be attending #CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org. Reach out to @seemagrewal.bsky.social and Amelia Glazier to discuss JCS, @focalplane.bsky.social and our other @biologists.bsky.social initiatives.

Attending #EMBOevoChromo25 next week? Our Reviews Editor @ingridtsang.bsky.social will be attending - feel free to talk to her about the journal or @biologists.bsky.social activities!

Decoding the role of SOX2 in retinal progenitor competence This Research Highlight showcases the work of Fuyun Bian, Kimiasadat Golestaneh, Emily Davis, Abdullah Khan, Issam Al Diri and colleagues: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

A path to success: Development's Pathway to Independence programme In this Perspective, @ingridtsang.bsky.social discusses how our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme helps postdocs establish their own labs and showcases the progress of our inaugural 2023 fellows. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Primate amnion development In this Review, Nikola Sekulovski, Amber E. Carleton, Chien-Wei Lin and Kenichiro Taniguchi (@taniguchi-lab.bsky.social) discuss recent advances in primate amnion development doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Apply! It's a great experience and you get to meet very cool people. Let me know if you want to know more 🧪

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions: Mentoring Profile raising Leadership training Network building Spread the word... www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

Lovely article about the Pathway to Independence program

This is a great program to support postdocs during the transition to group leader position. I know from first-hand experience :)

Please consider applying, @dev-journal.bsky.social provides: - Profile raising - Mentor sessions - Leadership training and a growing network of supportive peers.

Excellent opportunity for early career researchers in the job market! Don't miss it!

Are you a #devbio postdoc planning to go on the job market in 2026? Then this is the initiative for you! Offering training, networking, mentoring and profile-raising components, Development's PI Programme can give you that extra support you might need while navigating this challenging time...

Nice piece on the @dev-journal.bsky.social PI fellows programme. I was lucky to be part of the first cohort and cannot speak highly enough about the impact it can have. I sincerely hope it continues and if so I encourage everyone interested to apply!

Issue 22 is complete! On the cover: Z-stack image sequence of a human hepatoblast organoid stained for markers AFP (cyan) and ALB (magenta), with nuclei labelled with Hoechst 33342 (yellow). See Research Article by Ekatarini Zacharis, Ludovic Vallier and colleagues. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Apply for our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs in #devbio and #stemcell research during the transition to their first group leader position: www.biologists.com/grants/devel... Application deadline: 2 February 2026.

Two more days left to apply for a funded ECR place at our Workshop on Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution, organised by James Hombría and Antónia Monteiro. Apply by 5 December biologists.com/workshops/ju... @isabelalmudi.bsky.social @jlopezrios.bsky.social

Next week, Development Editor James Wells will be attending the @cshlnews.bsky.social meeting 'Assembloids & Complex Cell-Cell Interactions across Tissues & Organs'. Speak to Jim about submitting your next manuscript to Development. Meet our team of Editors: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ed...

Our next extraordinary biologist is Grace Lim, a prolific preLighter @prelights.bsky.social and a contributor to @the-node.bsky.social and @dev-journal.bsky.social. #100biologists

ROS heal the cricket leg This Research Highlight showcases the work from Misa Okumura-Hirono, Tetsuya Bando and colleagues journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

As the last month of @biologists.bsky.social 100 anniversary year approaches, we'd love to hear about your experience with the Company by sending a virtual message in a bottle. www.biologists.com/100-years/me...

IPL8 prevents oocytes from ageing in virgin flies This Research Highlight showcases the work from Jianjun Sun, Rebecca Oramas and colleagues journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Pause and play: insights into mammalian embryonic diapause In this Spotlight, Rui Cehn and Ivan Bedzhov (@bedzhovlab.bsky.social) from @mpi-muenster.bsky.social discuss the emerging mechanisms that govern mammalian embryonic diapause. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

The power of the media: core culture conditions direct gastruloid development This Research Highlight showcases the work from Tina Balayo, André Dias @dias-andre.bsky.social, David Turner @gastruloids.bsky.social and colleagues: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

The pre-cancerous condition Barrett's oesophagus mirrors the developing foregut This Research Highlight showcases the work from Syed Murtuza Baker, Aoibheann Mullan, Andy Sharrocks, Neil A. Hanley and colleagues: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Next week, our Executive Editor, @amjeve.bsky.social, is attending the 'Stem Cells: Environmental & metabolic control of stem cells & development' meeting in London. Please speak to Alex about publishing in Development, @the-node.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social's charitable activities.

Call for papers Submit your latest in vivo and in vitro #DevBio 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...

Midline tissue formation in zebrafish development This Research Highlight showcases the work from Robert Morabito, Benjamin Martin (@blmartin.bsky.social) and colleagues @stonybrooku.bsky.social : journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

In preprints: folding from the top – apical forces drive eye cup formation Adrian Perez-Ramos and Paola Bovolenta discuss the recent preprint by Ramos et al. (2025) “The Optic cup is actively shape programmed by independently patterned apical forces”: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Issue 21 is now complete! The cover features a human cerebral cortex rosette from Nicolas Loyer. See the associated Research Article by Alwyn Dady, @profkatestorey.bsky.social and colleagues: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Our Editor-in-Chief, @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social, will be attending the 'Engineering Stem Cells and Stem Cell Niches' conference by @novo-nordisk.bsky.social, which starts this weekend. Please take the opportunity to speak to James about submitting your next paper to Development.

Searching for physical principles of morphogenesis In this #OpenAccess Spotlight, Nikolas Claussen, Fridtjof Brauns and @streichan.bsky.social highlight the ‘physics of development’, focusing on the interplay between quantitative experiments and mathematical theory doi.org/10.1242/dev....