"we developed docking and deamination followed by sequencing (D&D-seq), a single-cell immuno-tethering technology for profiling DNA-protein interactions" www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

For this #FluorescenceFriday we have something a bit different. An SEM image of a sterlet sturgeon neurula embryo labelled with SOX9 which decorates the cranial neural crest - a transient embryonic tissue that shapes vertebrate faces. 🔬 #DevelopmentalBiology 📸: Jan Štundl

New paper! How do RNAs "know" where to go inside a cell? We dug into the sequence elements that route RNAs to the right place. It turns out that, in mammals, they're surprisingly massive (>200 nt), multipartite, and wonderfully complicated. 🧵

🧵1/6 Excited to share that our new STAR Protocols paper is out! 🧬✨ We describe an improved protocol for culturing mouse fetal gonads ex vivo using 3D-printable molds. 🐭🧫 www.cell.com/star-protoco...

@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Cell-Cell-Seq resolves contact-associated NK cell activation in defined tumor cell dyads www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Vote for a @dev-journal.bsky.social cover from the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology We’re excited to launch a cover competition to select an image from the 2025 cohort of @devbioquintay.bsky.social. Voting closes on 24 June 2026. thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-a-d...

Hey y'all, let's make Thermo Fisher and their "optimization" famous🧪

✨Rare model organisms can teach us how to build a body differently. In snail embryos blastomeres can be as big as the rest of the embryo! 🐌Phrontis vibex blastula stained for tubulin (gray), phalloidin (blue) and histone (magenta). 🔬 #ModelMonday #DevBio 📸: Clemens Cabernard

Microrobots made of human-induced pluripotent stem cells and magnetoelectric nanoparticles promote lesion repair and motor improvements after spinal cord injury in zebrafish and mice under magnetic guidance and stimulation, according to a paper in Nature Materials. go.nature.com/4e6cxNw 🧪

Our #CellLineOfTheWeek is titin - illuminating the sarcomeres! 🫀🧫 Our high-quality induced stem cell lines and plasmids are openly available to support cell biology research and accelerate discovery. 📦 Distributed by @coriellinstitute.bsky.social & @addgene.bsky.social#CellLineOfTheWeek #OpenScience

Call for Papers Submit your latest plant and multicellular algae #DevBio research to our upcoming special issue – Plant and Algae Development #DevSIPlantAlgae Editors: @stanfordstomata.bsky.social & Susana Coelho Deadline: 2 November 2026 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pl...

DEADLINE EXTENDED! There's still time to register for the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting! Great science, great people, big trees! Join us! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

RegVelo, an #AI model developed by an international team including researchers in the @saukaspengler.bsky.social Lab, helps identify the genes that influence how cells develop and change over time – highlighted by the Chosun Daily as a promising advance for regenerative medicine: bit.ly/4e2o9kF

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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

(1/11) Excited to share the brand-new cell division preprint from the lab! In this manuscript, chemical biology (in a collaboration with @rnett42.bsky.social Ryan’s lab) meets the cell biology (our lab). Harmala alkaloids regulate cell division planes in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨The Kasper lab is hiring! Funded positions for a postdoc and research assistant.🚨 We study regulatory mechanisms regulating vascular and hematopoietic development using zebrafish 🐟. For postdocs, contact me [email protected]. For RAs, apply here: searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/85822

Single cell 🔔 single cell 🔔single single 🔔🔔cellhttps://share.google/k3LOTNec0pt1q61dP

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Hello #world, meet 1,000× Expansion Microscopy. A small gel would grow to the size of an Olympic swimming pool, while amino-acid-scale distances become visible with ordinary light microscopy. Led by Helena Hu from @eboyden3.bsky.social's lab, in collab with us. Story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The Ly Lab is recruiting two #postdocs to study intercellular DNA transfer. Join us to tackle fundamental questions at the intersection of genome instability, cell-cell communication, and cancer evolution. Please share! 🙏 Full posting: cri.utsw.edu/careers/

Xiang Cui, Min Cui and colleagues identify Golgi remodelling as an early-associated feature of paraptosis. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Wrote a short piece on Transposable Elements as catalysts of evolutionary innovation for a forthcoming special issue of @naturerevgenet.bsky.social on, duh, Evolutionary Innovation! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

and @matt-kustra.bsky.social’s preprint on the genomics of the Laguna Chichancanab #pupfish radiation here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Feeling like it's officially #pupfishweek, so here's another one of my favorite videos but this time from the field! I took this video of a cutely colorful male #Cyprinodon beltrani while swimming in less than a meter of water in Laguna Chichancanab during our last field season with … 🧵👇

Clusters of comets coming for you? ☄️ Not quite. This timelapse captures something far smaller: an animal's kidney cells dividing, imaged with confocal microscopy. The glowing orange traces each cell's internal transportation network, reorganizing & splitting as cells divide. 📸: Andy Moore

This #FluorescenceFriday banger is one of our first ever fish movies and a huge part of why I instantly fell in love with the model: a living embryo expressing GFP in its beating heart!!!!

🚨🤩 Quintay Developmental Biology Course!!

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. 🌎✨

In their Cell Science at a Glance article & poster, Swastik Kar and Yaniv Elkouby @yanivelkouby.bsky.social outline our current understanding of the Bb in oogenesis & reproduction, & compare the structure, formation & functions of the Bb across species. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

New edition of the great Quintay Developmental Biology Course !!! biodesarrollo.unab.cl

🐭 Female mice develop male genitals when researchers modified both copies of non-coding Enh13, which controls Sox9 gene responsible for testes development in male mice. This suggests Enh13 acts as an enhancer and a silencer of Sox9, per Nature Communications study. #SciSky #MedSky 🧪

Save the date! #ZebrafishMeeting

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...

In situ molecular architecture of the mammalian sperm nuclear vacuole https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.18.725999v1

These findings challenge the assumption that somatic genomes evolve strictly through cell-autonomous mechanisms. Instead, we show that megabase-scale genomic alterations can also arise through non-cell-autonomous processes. This may have important implications for cancer evolution. (5/7)

Transferred DNA fragments persist across cell divisions as stable genetic elements, remain transcriptionally active, and can alter cellular function. (4/7)

Excited to share our latest paper! We found that large pieces of the human genome can transfer between cells upon direct contact, endowing recipient cells with heritable phenotypic changes. @cp-cell.bsky.social (1/7) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Opinion: As peer reviewer participation declines, how do we sustain the integrity of #PeerReview? We propose a transparent, universal credit system to recognize reviewers’ essential contributions to science. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/UqXZ50Z1auJ#PeerReview? #AcademicPublishing

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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

⭐️ A transgenic hydra labeling the endoderm and ectoderm of two column ends regenerating.🔬📸 Credit: Raisa Bailon-Zambrano from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus taken during the 2021 MBL Embryology Course #FluorescenceFriday #devbio #Embryology 🪸

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The Hoffman Lab at @yale.edu is recruiting! The lab focuses on understanding how neurodevelopmental disorder genes function in the developing brain using #zebrafish models. If you're interested in developmental neuroscience or genetics, apply! More details: www.hoffmanlab.net/jobs #ZebrafishJobs 🧪

11/ This is how the theory looks like: a nice exponential decay of cohesin bridging probability with genomic distance. How does this compare to experiments? 🤔

Why can't we explain enhancer action despite 2 decades of chromosome conformation technologies? 😬 Our new study spearheaded by Leonid Mirny's group points to a flaw in our assumptions, and to a solution from physical principles By @timothyfoldes.bsky.social 💻& @karissalhansen.bsky.social 🧪 🧵👇

#DBfeature 🧑‍🎓 The Neural Tube CURE trains students in developmental biology methodology while offering a research course designed to increase opportunities for undergraduate research experience By Anneke Dixie Kakebeen, Joshua Fandel, Lee Niswander tinyurl.com/y2va2xpy

PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) is now PMOS: Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. A much-needed change that better reflects the endocrine, metabolic, and reproductive features of the condition. Hopefully this improves awareness, diagnosis, and care ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...