We present VIPR, a phage-encoded RNA-guided system that recognizes DNA with a noncontiguous code unlike CRISPR. Tiny, programmable, possibly ancestral to CRISPR immunity; VIPR is built around a striking RNA-DNA-DNA triplex.

We’ve made our website more accessible and inclusive 🌎 Latinx in Developmental Biology is now available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese — so more of our community can connect, learn, and be represented. 🔗 sites.google.com/view/latinxi... Inclusion matters in science 💙 #LatinxDB

🤯 Spatial 5mC-seq profiling of embryos and decidua after implantation in mammals | Nature Methods share.google/6RuCkO2QpRDl...

Spend less time processing cell images with the Allen Cell Structure Segmenter. This #OpenScience python-based toolkit helps #cellscience researchers navigate complex images by automatically capturing the boundaries of structures. Access at: https://lnkd.in/gpWA7xWH

Do you wanna learn about new labs researching #EvoDevo across the Americas? Check them out here! Frogs 🐸, butterflies 🦋 and cnidarians 🪼 #embryos

New study from Youfang Zhou, Xianfeng Wang, et al. in the Wu-Min Deng lab @tulanemedicine.bsky.social shows that induced #polyploidy acts as an intrinsic cellular stress, reprogramming epithelial cells to promote motility and phagocytic behaviors. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#DBfeature Proteins involved in cell division have broad tissue-specific functions in sea urchin development By Jessica Benito, Elizabeth McCulla, Raisa Sumaiya, Jia Song tinyurl.com/554jhd6h

This finding provides broad comparative support for the longstanding hypothesis that the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic (N/C) ratio acts as a timer of genome activation. Moreover, this scaling accurately predicts ZGA timing across diverse animals from genome size and egg volume of a species alone. 8/15

These images show live embryos of animals (jellyfish, crustacean, worm, sea urchin, sea squirt, beetle) and one of animals closest single-celled relatives. They were captured taking advantage of fluorescent proteins localised on the outer membrane of cells, allowing us to observe cell outlines. 1/9

New preprint out! We show how cellular nematic order can be harnessed to program tissue-wide force fields and guide 3D shape transformations. The tissue morphogenesis logic, now engineered into living, programmable materials. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ActiveMatter #TissueEngineering

Out in @natmethods.nature.com: More dyes. They work. Quite well. And blink. Pick the one that fits your target, your technique, and your labeling density. With too many collaborators and institutes to list, but anchored at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share that @socdevbio.bsky.social has a new and improved merch store! Rep your fav model organism in one of the Society’s new original designs 🤗 sdb-official-merch.printify.me

Two great talks coming up this Thursday at VGZT! 🗓️ Thursday, April 16th ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CEST Our speakers are 👉 Meng Zhu (@zhumeng123.bsky.social) 👉 Pulin Li (on X: @Pulin_Li) See you on Thursday! 👋

Grateful for my undergrads 🥰

Would you like to learn about ✨ #Nudibranch 🐌 🌊 regeneration✨ and the evolution of ✨ ✨ #musculoskeletal 🍖 development in avian models 🐣 ✨ ✨ ? Join us this next Monday 1pm ET for our first @evodevopanam.bsky.social #EvoDevoMondays! It’s open to all registrants 🩷. Link 🔗 👇

🗓️Key dates: Early-bird deadline – 8 May 2026 Abstract deadline – 12 June 2026 Final registration deadline – 24 July 2026 🎤An amazing line up of speakers and organised by some of your fav dev bio scientist ;) @wellcometrust.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social

‼️The registration for the Development Journal Meeting 2026 - Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos is now open. This year marks a collaboration between @dev-journal.bsky.social and the Human Developmental Biology Initiative consortium. www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...

Save the Date! The 14th Structural Birth Defects Meeting will be September 21-23 @childrensphila.bsky.social Keynotes: Erica E. Davis @luriechildrens.bsky.social @feinberg.northwestern.edu & Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social at UC San Francisco. Abstracts & registration open May 1. #14thSBD

New preprint @cxqiu.bsky.social @jshendure.bsky.social ! Can we learn regulatory grammars of human cell types — by training on mouse development and transferring across 241 mammalian genomes? Introducing STEAM & a whole-organism scATAC-seq atlas from E10 to birth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Humm enhancer power! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wuau beautiful images

Mapping the maternal–fetal interface through pregnancy in high resolution @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you for the shoutout @drstarbird.bsky.social. We are both on the ballot and you can vote for 3 Council members in addition to other leadership positions. If you are an @ascbiology.bsky.social member, find that email and please vote before April 30th! 🤩🗳️

Excited to have my first senior author publication out in the world! An awesome collab between myself in @reitergroup.bsky.social's lab and the Berbari lab at IU. We found primary cilia are necessary for postnatal pituitary development. 1/n. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join us this Friday at 3pm ET for another #SDBPostdocSeminar featuring @mads100tist.bsky.social and Yiqun Wang, who will be presenting their awesome research! 🐟 🐌 Martha Echevarria-Andino and I will be moderating 🌼

🚨 NEW 🚨 "Two decades of induced pluripotent stem cell research: From discovery to diverse applications" by Shinya Yamanaka

Catch up on Development presents… webinar on neural development Our February webinar featured early-career researchers studying neural development. Here, we share the talks from Joaquín Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social & Carlo Donato Caiaffa. #DevPres thenode.biologists.com/catch-up-on-...

I illustrated my way through the @bsdb.bsky.social Spring Meeting a couple weeks ago - here's my illustrated summary of the conference! I sketched (almost) all the speakers and glimpses of the science that made it such a great few days.

Paid 12-month internship: Communications Officer. We have an exciting opportunity for someone looking to take their first step into a science communication or publishing role. Based Cambridge, UK (& wfh). See the full role description for further details at biologists.com/wp-content/u...

PREPRINT ALERT !!! Excited to share our #reptile #embryo cryopreservation method optimised on peri-gastrulation veiled chameleon embryos! This lays the foundation for functional studies & reptile #conservation efforts! #devbio #squamates #evodevo www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

If you know a graduating undergraduate looking for the chance to spend 1-2 years in a lab before graduate school, we're hiring! Our lab explores morphogenesis, defining how the cell adhesion & cytoskeletal machinery work together to allow cells to change shape & move tarheels.live/peiferlab/ 1/n RT

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social has a more than 100 year history of supporting science through its journals, meetings, and fellowships. Help lead it into its second century! pls share www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...

Despite broad "mestizo" classifications, urban Peruvians retain strong Andean and Aymara genetic continuity, inherited primarily through maternal lineages due to colonial dynamics. 😍😍😍 share.google/RXHaOCZElvDp...

A survey of dietary effects on tRNA abundance and modifications https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.10.658430v1

I’m happy to announce the first US-based international meeting on epigenetic inheritance, taking place July 15–17, 2026. Registration is now open! Join us for an exciting program featuring outstanding speakers and cutting-edge research. Please share and spread the word! #EpigeneticInheritance2026

Applications are open for our Next Generation Leaders program! Our NGL program recognizes emerging scientific leaders and invites them into a supportive network. 🔗 Apply by March 31: https://alleninstitute.org/about/people/next-generation-leaders/

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Our #CellLineOfTheWeek is LAMP-1 - illuminating lysosomes. 🧫 ✨ Our stem cell lines & plasmids are available for just the cost of shipping to reduce the barriers to scientific discovery. 📦 Hosted by @coriellinstitute.bsky.social & @addgene.bsky.social#FluorescenceFriday

✨ Somite symmetry never fails to mesmerize 🐟 Trunk somites of a 1-day-old zebrafish embryo with nuclear (💙) and membrane (🧡) labelling 📸 Image credit: Matyas Bubna-Litic (Mongera lab, UCL) 🔬 #FluorescenceFriday

BiO is pleased to launch a new grant: BiO Global South Conference Travel Grants, to help ECRs based in the Global South attend international biological and biomedical science conferences. Next application deadline: 19 June 2026. tinyurl.com/22zx7msy

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

Incubating the next generation. 🧫✨ Together with @isscr.org and @socdevbio.bsky.social, we're hosting a symposium led by the next generation of leaders in stem cell and developmental biology research. All career stages welcomed. Apply by May 1. More at: https://bit.ly/4t0b1lG

Sperm cell navigation, egg cell fertilisation, and early embryo development are negatively affected by simulated low gravity (microgravity) conditions, according to a study involving human, mice and pig cells published in Communications Biology. Read the research: go.nature.com/3NFBFl5

The March 13 #SDBPostdocSeminar with Martha Echevarría-Andino of @uwmadison.bsky.social and M. Fernanda Palominos of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social has been posted. Thank you to moderators @gopalkushawah.bsky.social and Neha Ahuja. Watch here: youtu.be/Ohzyftcq2gY

Finished your PhD & looking for a Postdoc position? Intrigued by #zebrafish heart morphogenesis? Job available in the @rashmi-priya.bsky.social Lab at @crick.ac.uk (Initial 4 years funding w/ potential for 2 additional years)🐟❤️ More details: crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... Please share 🧪

1/ 🚀 Excited to release: napari-mcp - agentic control of napari from any MCP-capable AI assistant! Use it for interactive image processing, analysis, and visualisation! Really cool project from @ilan-theodoro.bsky.social from my team! #napari #bioimageanalysis #MCP @biohub