"These results offer the most thorough delineation to data of the spatiotemporal transcriptomic dynamics of human organogenesis" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looks like a fantastic symposium!

Just 1 week to go until the Cambridge Morphogenesis Symposium @cammorphoseries.bsky.social. If you are attending the meeting, Reviews Editor @saanjbati.bsky.social will be there in person and happy to chat about @dev-journal.bsky.social, @the-node.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social.

Looks like the 2027 Dev Bio GRC is shaping up to be another good one: www.grc.org/developmenta...

SLIT2 repellent is cleaved by TLL1 protease and promotes sensory axon fasciculation Read this Research Article from our special issue #DevSIextracellular by Lauren Jones, Thomas Kidd, Grant Mastick & co from @unevadareno.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

#Devbio is fascinating because what do you mean we can learn about stem cell biology and aging by studying a tiny minimalistic creature like the Hydra? 🤯 In this fascinating review, Thomas W. Holstein discussed how the Hydra can be used as a model system for these processes. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

This exciting paper is now out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are looking for a new colleague to join us in Galway. The position is in Biochemistry and if research focus lines up we hope the successful person will join us in the Centre for Chromosome biology (chromosome.ie). Reach out if you are interested in applying! tinyurl.com/2jy4rj3r

Huge congratulations to Professor Roberto Mayor @mayorlab.bsky.social on becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society! Proud to celebrate a Latin American scientist whose work and career inspire our community worldwide. 🌎✨

🔥ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE🔥 congratulations to our ✨president✨, Professor Elly Tanaka of the IMP @impvienna.bsky.social, for being elected as a Fellow of the @royalsociety.org! Professor Tanaka is a world leader in the field of development and regeneration. royalsociety.org/news/2026/05...

@isdb.bsky.social is on fire today! Massive congratulations to our President, Professor Elly Tanaka 👏 👏

🔥ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE🔥 congratulations to our ✨president✨, Professor Elly Tanaka of the IMP @impvienna.bsky.social, for being elected as a Fellow of the @royalsociety.org! Professor Tanaka is a world leader in the field of development and regeneration. royalsociety.org/news/2026/05...

Incredible news. Congratulations, @mayorlab.bsky.social!

Huge congratulations to @mayorlab.bsky.social Very proud to have began my scientific career in Roberto's lab

‼️MASSIVE‼️ congratulations to Professor Roberto Mayor @mayorlab.bsky.social from UCL, who has been elected as a fellow of The Royal Society @royalsociety.org. Professor Mayor is a Professor of Developmental and Cellular Neurobiology and one of our board of directors. royalsociety.org/news/2026/05...

Massive congratulations to our Editor-in-Chief for being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society @royalsociety.org. This is an incredible honour for our journal. @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-cdb.bsky.social

‼️MASSIVE‼️ congratulations to Professor Roberto Mayor @mayorlab.bsky.social from UCL, who has been elected as a fellow of The Royal Society @royalsociety.org. Professor Mayor is a Professor of Developmental and Cellular Neurobiology and one of our board of directors. royalsociety.org/news/2026/05...

During morphogenesis, different tissue interacts with one another, either mechanically or biochemically. Patrick P.L. Tam and Pragathi Masamsett show that the anterior mesendoderm can pattern head formation in mouse embryos by regulating WNT signalling. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Absolutely beautiful!

A day in the life of a growing hiPSC spheroid expressing endogenously mStayGold-tagged histone 3.3 for #FluorescenceFriday and the #Snouty aficionados. 28 hours (and >50,000 exposures) later and they are still going! Home-brewed volume projection.

Many thanks 🙏 to Julie Warin and @anne-grapin.bsky.social for a very nice outlook on our paper in @genesdev.bsky.social genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

'The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths (...) By contrast, optimization pressures drive convergence—faster iteration within a constrained search space. The result may be more output but less exploration of the unexpected.'

Riccardo Babic, Leon Lucya, Christoph Reiter, Claudine Kraft and colleagues identify a ULK1–MTFR1L feedback loop that links mitochondrial fission, mitophagy and apoptosis. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Did modern human carpal morphology evolve from knuckle walking traits? A new study from #ProcB comparing primate and fossil wrist morphology finds humans and African apes share derived features possibly linked to knuckle-walking doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #Evolution #Palaeontology

#MASLD #T2D MASLD can drive fasting hyperglycemia, glycemic variability, sarcopenia & CVD risk—even at “normal” BMI Early screening & Lifestyle interventions matter a ton How much more GLP-1a & SLGT2i adds?😀 #DiabetesMetabSyndr 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! I captured this shot of a group of embryonic macrophages expressing LifeAct and H2B migrating inside tissue. These cells can use lamellipodia, filopodia, or blebs to migrate, and are frequently switching between these different modes or combining them. So fascinating.

💥 🚀 New preprint! 🎉🥳 How do hundreds of organelles organize themselves into near-perfect patterns inside a cell, without a blueprint? We dive deep into how basal bodies (BBs) self-organize in MCCs - and how actin actively tunes their dynamics into order 🍪 🧵👇 (1/17)

The 2027 EMBO practical course on #devbio is now open for registration. You'll get work with a lot of different model organisms, from fly to frog and everything in between, plus amazing imaging too. And the city is beautiful, so what I've heard 😌!

The 2027 EMBO practical course on #devbio is now open for registration. You'll get work with a lot of different model organisms, from fly to frog and everything in between, plus amazing imaging too. And the city is beautiful, so what I've heard 😌!

PL retweet. Developmental Biology Course (Quintay). More information: biodesarrollo.unab.cl

Next, @ingridtsang.bsky.social chronicles a day in the life of a Reviews Editor (including must-have snacks!) thenode.biologists.com/a-day-in-the...

How to make a ❤️ in a dish? This very comprehensive review from the lab of Gergana Dobreva discusses everything you need to know, from the chemical signalling to mechanical signalling that governs cardiogenesis, to the current protocols of how to make this organ in vitro. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Happy #FluorescenceFriday. I feel so lucky to get to work with these weird and curious primary macrophages from 🐸. They exhibit myriad different morphologies and behaviours, including spinning endlessly and stationary, kinda like progenitor cells under compression from 🐟. Also actomyosin is strong!

✨ A developmental biology classic! Somitogenesis of a chick embryo 🐣 is lighting up in this fluorescent HCR staining. The notochord (Chordin 🟡) and somites (PAX7 💎) are labelled. 🔬 📸 credit: Tatiane Kanno #FluorescenceFriday #devbio

The YEN 2026 Image Competition is open for submissions! Enter by sending us an original image you made in the field of developmental biology. Winners will be decided by public voting. Top 10 images will be featured in future YEN materials! Submit your image here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I guess we can say this is a wisdom 🦷!

Can't quite say we've seen many papers studying 🦷 #development. In this curious paper, Sun et al shows a double negative loop between a long non-coding RNA (LOC102159588) and a microRNA (miR-133b) is important for apoptosis regulation and normal 🦷 development in mice. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

We love #zebrafish too 🐟

Frugal design, previously demoed at @devbioquintay.bsky.social 🐟🌎

#DBfeature A low-cost, high-throughput pipeline for 3D imaging of embryonic mouse hearts using lightsheet microscopy By Xiangyang Liu, Jianfeng Wang, Youshi Chen, Hongjun Shi tinyurl.com/yc46asz2

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social generously supports the BSCB and allows us to provide travel grants and childcare support grants

#DBfeature Multilineage potential induced by reconstruction of 3D structures in mouse fetal brain cells: a non-genetic approach in regenerative medicine By Ken Ohnishi, Jun-ichi Sagara, Tomoya Fujita tinyurl.com/2nm9wt4a

Long overlooked, nuclear speckles are coming into focus as a fundamental layer of gene regulation. Read the Alexander lab review Trends in Cell Biology https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962892426000590

Captured this clip when I was still working on the protein CYRI-A for my PhD and it remains one of my most favorites. It was my first time seeing lysosomes (🔴) fusing on and acidifying a macropinosome (⚪). I learned about this at uni but seeing it in action is something else! #FluorescenceFriday

We love #zebrafish too 🐟

Do you work with #zebrafish? Wanting a budget-friendly housing system capable of thermal control and filtration? Perhaps you just set up your lab and are looking for a short term solution? Then ZebRack designed by the Valdivia lab might pique of your interest? Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

I've been fortunate to have @marcoenriquez18.bsky.social a #materialsChemist in my team. Cytoskeletal elements are often studied on their own but in reality, the #cytoskeleton is biopolymer network that is intricately intertwined. (#Award winning movie Light Microscopy Aus). @aibnatuq.bsky.social

Overly proud that Katie Holden's image won Evident Microscopy's 6th Annual Image of the Year "Global Winner" award🏆 The image shows Live iPSC-derived neurospheres. DNA (magenta) & MT (blue) were stained with our probes SiR-tubulin & SPY555-DNA probes. evidentscientific.com/en/landing/i...

The WINNER of our 2026 Image Competition is: Louisa Snape from @uclqsneuromuscular.bsky.social for her beautiful image of mouse neuromuscular junctions. Congratulations Louisa 👏