For this #FluorescenceFriday, a gorgeous image of an adult mouse kidney labeled with AQP2 and alpha SMA antibodies. AQP2 (green) marks the collecting duct and distal connecting segment while SMA marks the arterial tree. Courtesy of talented postdoc Sarah McLarnon.

‘Shake it off’: Taylor Swift’s changing voice shows how our accents evolve. Researchers have confirmed what Taylor Swift fans have long suspected: the music megastar’s dialect & pitch have shifted throughout her career. 🧪👄📣 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Transitions in development – an interview with Mijo Šimunović We caught up with Mijo Šimunović from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social to learn more about Mijo's transition to becoming a group leader and Mijo's insights on the growing need for cross-disciplinary research: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Now out in final published form - with a new title "Mechanical control of cell fate decisions in the skin epidermis" and simulations/quantifications! See below for thread of how unbalanced tensions can bias fate choices in minimal 3D models of tissues! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In this intriguing paper published from the lab of @amartinezarias.bsky.social , they looked at the effects of size on morphology, tissue composition, and gene expression of gastruloid development. They found that AP elongation dynamics is size-dependent! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Our September issue cover is now online. You can check out the issue here: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cell...

(1/14) I’m happy and proud to introduce: SpinePy – a framework to detect the "spine" of gastruloids and measure biological and physical signals in a local dynamic 3D coordinate system. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition or EMT is an integral part of development in animals. In this beautifully illustrated review from the lab of Magali Suzanne, they describe and compare and contrast the cellular mechanism of EMT across the different model organisms. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

This is the cutest thing I've seen all day or year!!!

Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪

Early Career Opportunity Mentorship & career development, access to world-class facilities, and a collaborative, supportive environment. We are particularly interested in researchers in Synthetic Dev. Biol. Mechanobiology and AI . #AcademicJobs #EarlyCareerResearcher #UCL #DevelopmentalBiology

And here is Gage Crump @crumplab.bsky.social, all the way from @usc.edu, to tell us about Cross-Species Single-Cell Approaches to Facial Development and Evolution. A big thanks to @isdb.bsky.social @cellsdev.bsky.social @devdynamics.bsky.social for sponsoring the talk! #V4SDB2025 #evodevo

For decades, living embryos were the favourite tool to study development. However, their complexity hindered precise dissection of many processes. This comprehensive review provides a comparison between embryos and the power of gastruloids, opening up a new wave of dev bio. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

A cryosection from an embryo stained for the neural crest (🟠) using HCR, and DAPI (⚪). Can you guess what embryo this is? #FluorescenceFriday Image credit: Ines Fernandez Mosquera, PhD student at @ucl.ac.uk

Nice cell division observed on Zeiss LLS7 yesterday! Sample: @romainguiet.bsky.social

Our next extraordinary biologist is Jeroen Dobbelaere, a member of the @biologists.bsky.social Sustainability Committee and an early advisor on the event carbon calculator and The Forest of Biologists. #100biologists

Research team @nadlerlab.bsky.social, A. Honigmann @biotec-tud.bsky.social, B.Drobot @hzdr.bsky.social, M. Hof @heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social develops approach to visualize lipids in cells & uncovers the main transport mechanism for lipids within the cell. @nature.com www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Many phenotypes from cells on plastic dishes just don't seem to translate to cells in vivo, particularly isolated primary cells. @raimonsunyer.bsky.social et al discussed how cells mechanically adapt, and the different ways we can mitigate this in this very helpful review: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Wow, International Xenopus Meeting (IXC25) -- Matt Guille and EXRC opens the meeting with old friends new science @xenbase.bsky.social xenopusresource.org/20th-interna... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

Dr Banerjee nailing it at #IXC25 meeting. Just look at the size of the screen we are presenting on! 🐸🧪🐸🧬

What are the physics behind lumen formation? In this interesting and interdisciplinary review, Guillaume Salbreux et al described the physical laws from osmotic pressure to electrical potential that govern this biological process. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

A classical neural crest migration. Even if the movie is a little bit shaky, their migration is still somehow mesmerising. It must be the stripes! 🤔 #fluorescencefriday Movie by Kai Weissenbruch

For something as classic as the Spemann-Mangold organizer first discovered in amphibians, the existence of such an organiser in mammals remains elusive. In this thought provoking review by Kate Mcdole et al, they discuss the evidence for and against such organiser in mouse. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

A classical neural crest migration. Even if the movie is a little bit shaky, their migration is still somehow mesmerising. It must be the stripes! 🤔 #fluorescencefriday Movie by Kai Weissenbruch

NEW: Oxford researchers have discovered an unexpected and powerful new function for platelets. Platelets act as scavengers, capturing and storing fragments of DNA that are circulating in the blood, including fetal DNA and mutated DNA from cancer cells. ⬇️ www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08...

Can someone please add some beats 🎵🎵 to this video, we beg!

Very happy that the first article from my postdoc work in the Tomancak lab is now published @PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... We studied the self-organization of actin in aggregates made from Hydra cells. Thread below (1/9)

This is so cool! A good way for early career scientists to put your name out there and network too! Beautiful images are always eye catching. Register and we would love to see them too at ISDB!

1000% YES !!! Also works for cancer, immunology and every other cellular process: differentiation, adhesion, migration, proliferation, survival etc. Cell biology is cool, but it's like studying plants without their soil. I wish more studies would try to put their findings in perspective of the ECM

Interesting review about the role of ECM in development!

Maybe it's time we rethink the idea that development is a cell centric process? In this beautiful review, María-del-Carmen and @stramerlab.bsky.social discussed how the ECM underlies and influences many morphogenesis processes from wing unfolding to mammary gland development. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

AKAP14 is of those genes that is highly expressed, yet when knocked down by 60% even in a mouse model shows no apparent effects on the organism, no effects on meiotic progression, sperm count, motility and morphology. How weird?Check out this intriguing paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

A cryosection immunofluorescence image of a Xenopus embryo showing fibronectin in 🔵, DAPI in ⚪, and Sox9 - a marker of the neural crest in 🟠. Image credit: Kai Weissenbruch from UCL #FluorescenceFriday #devbio

🐌💫 Snail embryos never looked so fabulous! Tubulin (white), phospho-histone H3 (pink), and F-Actin (cyan) light up this early stage like a cytoskeletal disco ball. Image from Clemens Cabernard & Adam von Barnau Sythoff 🪩🧬 #FluorescenceFriday

#Postdocs! Two days left to submit an abstract for the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series! Deadline: Friday, August 1 bit.ly/3x1ptgb

Developmental biologist and former SDB board member Guillermo Oliver published a letter in Science 'US funding freeze threatens biomedical research' in which he highlights the effects of the federal funding freeze on Northwestern University & other institutions. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Ooh, this is fun! What do we think? What is THE image of developmental biology? As conserved as it is, dev bio is also incredibly diverse across the animal kingdom. So what image would capture the essence of all?

Excited to share our newest preprint!

Thrilled to share that our latest work on marsupial heterochrony is now online at @cp-devcell.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @lab-turner.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk We used scRNAseq to understand the asynchronous progression of developmental programmes in marsupials www.cell.com/developmenta...

Continuing with the theme of organiser biology, Alexandra Neaverson and Benjamin Steventon discussed in this beautifully illustrated review the idea that "neural specification and patterning occur before organiser formation" in Xenopus, zebrafish, chick, and mouse. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

We're excited too! 🥰

LASDB board meeting during the @socdevbio.bsky.social / @isdb.bsky.social / LASDB joint meeting in San Juan, PR 🌴✨! We’re excited for what’s ahead for developmental biology and the growing role of Latinx scientists in the field. 💪🏽🧬 🐸🐟🐣🐭🪰 #DevBio #LatinxInScience #LASDB #LatinxDB

Check out this insightful review by Alfonso Martinez Arias et al where they show how studying the organiser in amphibian embryos helps us understand the development of the body axis in mammalians, and the use of gastruloids to study the Primitive Streak. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

This comprehensive review by Manuel Zúniga-García and Juan Rafael Riesgo-Escovar focuses on the evolutionarily conserved fos gene family in different species of invertebrates (🪰,🪱). The authors argued that fos genes were coopted from stress responses to development. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

🎉We’re grateful for the support of @isdb.bsky.social and @cellsdev.bsky.social, who will sponsor the ISDB-C&D Lecture by Gage Crump at the #V4SDB2025 Meeting! #devbio 👉Join us in Slovakia this September: v4sdb2025.img.cas.cz 👉Registration deadline: 31 July 2025 event.img.cas.cz/registration...

Our June cover is here. This image shows SALL1 protein (green) in a slice section of mouse embryonic external genitalia. New research shows that SALL1 is involved in tubulin acetylation and is important for urethral masculinization. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

🫶 @isdb.bsky.social @devbioquintay.bsky.social @mayorlab.bsky.social

Extremely honored to receive this prize from @socdevbio.bsky.social, which recognizes not only my love for developmental biology, but the extremely online I am 🧪 (protect science, protect people, viva la dev bio!)

If you are at #2025ICDB please join us for Workshop #1: Truth Matters: Strengthening Science Communication to Counter Misinformation from 10:30-12:30 today. We will discuss common misinformation topics and ideas on how to better adapt in these conversations. @socdevbio.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social