Basement membranes are scaffolds of proteins, like collagen, that give organs shape. During development, basement membranes must adapt to the growing organ. We infer how fast the basement membrane ada...

An emerging concept across multiple adult tissues implies that regeneration involves the transient reactivation of developmental programs, rather than…

Cell behaviors in multicellular organisms are coordinated via both diffusible molecules and by signals based on direct cell–cell contacts. The mode...

Bosveld et al. identified a multilayered system of safeguards that reuses homeostatic mechanisms to maintain epithelial integrity and cell number in the face of spindle misorientation. This work delin...

UKRI boss Ian Chapman said it had been told by the government to

Nature - Results of an early-phase breast cancer prevention trial demonstrate the potential for breast cancer prevention in premenopausal women with anti-progestin therapy by inducing...

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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,...

Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.

Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.

Activation of an LTR retrotransposon inserted upstream of the Fgf8 gene produces viral-like particles in the mouse developing limb, triggering apoptosis and causing limb malformation. This phenotype c...

Postdoctoral Fellowships offer researchers holding a PhD the opportunity to acquire new skills through advanced training and international, interdisciplinary, and inter-sectoral mobility.

Owen Williams Listen carefully, and you’ll hear it: a language older than the hills, older than the state. The names of rivers and mountains still whisper it – Pen-y-Fan, Penicuik, Aberystwyth, Aberde...

Autophagy has long been presumed to decline with age, underpinning its designation as a hallmark of ageing. However, emerging evidence challenges this notion, showing tissue-specific variability and, ...

In the autumn of 2024, David Stephens, a prominent member of the UK cell biology community and a brilliant scientist, leader and mentor, passed away. With his pragmatism and natural authority, combine...

In this half-hour long documentary we showcase some of the beauty, as well as the translatability, of developmental biology research being undertaken current...

The latest issue of Development (vol 152 issue 2) features a Perspective article by Duygu Özpolat, Swathi Arur (one of Development's Academic Editors),

A wild tale of how scientists unraveled embryology's most fascinating mystery.

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CFP | Lifelong Development | Development | The Company of Biologists Special Issue – Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues Development invites yo...