This study shows that goblet cells physically compress neighboring intestinal cells, creating fractures in cell–cell junctions that weaken epithelial cohesion, increase gut permeability and reveal how...

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Accelerated limb formation in marsupials reveals canonical developmental landmarks aren’t strict prerequisites for initiation.

Summary: A reaction-diffusion mechanism recapitulates pattern emergence in an in vitro model of neuromesodermal progenitors under a variety of boundary and geometrical perturbations.

How a conserved embryonic organiser-the Sonic hedgehog (Shh)-expressing Zone of Polarising Activity (ZPA)-generates diverse limb architectures in amniotes remains a central problem in evolutionary and...

Gene expression is a fundamentally stochastic process, with randomness in transcription and translation leading to cell-to-cell variations in mRNA and protein levels. This variation appears in organis...

Pérez-Verdugo et al. show that hindbrain neuropore closure is driven by surface ectoderm actomyosin purse-string tension and active migration. These forces create reproducible patterns of cell elongat...

Summary: Precisely-controlled, sensitive cantilevers measure and perturb tissue forces and mechanical properties in their native locations in live embryos, providing a useful tool to study tissue mech...

Experiments on the embryonic chick brain reveal distinct directional growth patterns and a tripartite hypothalamus, challenging the classic segmented prosomere model and offering an updated view of ho...

Backed by the Government of Canada’s $1.7 billion Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative, Dalhousie University is undertaking one of the most ambitious research-leader recruitment efforts in its hi...

Epithelia are specialized tissue barriers that safeguard the organism's internal milieu from the hostile external environment, a function critically dependent on intercellular junctions. In the colon,...