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Understanding how cells establish spatial organization within tissues is a fundamental question in life sciences. While modern three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy captures large-volume tissue ar...

We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...

This study uses a precise and efficient clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) prime editing system to substitute lysine residues in histone H3, individually or in combinat...

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

Restructuring research funding as a choice between discovery and application gets the economics wrong, the evidence wrong and the people wrong.

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Summary: Development announces the nominees, finalists and winners of the 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize, with the winning paper awarded £1000.

The open access movement was bold and promising, but ultimately disappointing. Now is the time to stop and call for a new way to make publishing work…

We are very pleased to announce that this year’s Waddington medal winner is James Briscoe. His fundamental discoveries have helped shape our understanding of of how morphogens work, and he has played ...

Lipids get the space they deserve: Fusar Bassini et al. pioneer a MALDI-MS imaging and computational analysis, bring membrane lipids and their spatial organization to the spotlight and provide evidenc...

9 January 2026 We launched our Sustainability Initiative to encourage and support ideas that enable biologists to collaborate productively whilst minimising their impact on the environment. We are pro...

Pathway to Independence programme | Development | The Company of Biologists Development's Pathway to Independence programme Launched in 2022, Development’s Pathway Independence programm...

10 December 2025 By Katherine Paine We are delighted to present to you the third prize-winning essay by Katherine Paine (University of Edinburgh) from our essay competition, ‘Innovative ideas for the ...