I have written before about how two conceptual frameworks have shaped our thinking about cell fate, Waddington's epigenetic landscape and Davidson's gene...

Single-cell omics methods promise to revolutionize our understanding of gene regulatory processes during cell differentiation, but analysis of such data continues to pose a major challenge. Apart from...

In LIFE UNBOUNDED, pioneering evolutionary biologist William C. Ratcliff reveals that every great leap in life’s complexity, from the first cells to human culture, was driven by the same underlying pr...

Snake embryos coil, but how and why they corkscrew remains unexplored. Weber et al. find that the embryos wind up clockwise via buckling of the rapidly elongating axial body against the slow-growing, ...

YouTube video by ISMARA: inferring gene regulatory interactions

A fundamental understanding of early oogenesis is lacking, and zebrafish serve as an excellent model for investigation, based largely on in vivo approaches. We present a protocol for long-term zebrafi...

This event will take place on Friday October 2nd, 2026, at the Department of Zoology (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge, Downing Street CB2 3EJ, 12:30 - 18:30. There will be no posters, ...

ALT: Callipterus Cichlid Collecting Shell

Coral reefs depend on an intracellular symbiosis between cnidarian hosts and photosynthetic dinoflagellates that is disrupted by ocean warming, causing coral bleaching. Yet how these responses are dis...

AbstractMotivation. Incomplete gene models negatively impact single-cell gene expression quantification. This is particularly true in non-model species whe

Summary: This Editorial offers an honest look at impact factor trends in developmental biology, explains how Development serves its community, and makes the case that sustaining developmental biology ...

Nature - Telomere-to-Telomere Assembly Using HERRO-Corrected Simplex Nanopore Reads

Novabrowse a BLAST results interpretation tool and sequence alignment viewer for gene synteny analysis, gene position on chromosome visualization, and comparative genomics tool for multi-species or...

Abstract. Daily temperature fluctuations are a ubiquitous feature of natural environments, yet our understanding of how ectotherms respond to thermal varia

Fish Evolution, Genomes, and Reproduction

This Review discusses recent advances in the molecular evolution of vertebrate organs, including rates of evolution of organs and cell types, molecular mechanisms of organ evolution and how complex tr...

Summary: This Editorial announces a call for Preprint Editors in Development to help expand the journal's relationship with preprints by curating our ‘In preprints’ articles.

Nature Ecology & Evolution - This Review discusses recent advances in the molecular evolution of vertebrate organs, including rates of evolution of organs and cell types, molecular mechanisms...