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LatinxDB is a non-profit scientific initiative that promotes LatinX talent in the Developmental Biology field. sites.google.com/view/latinxindb

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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
¿Participas en el XIV Congreso Nacional de la SMBD? 🇲🇽 ¡Acompáñanos en la sesión “Creando puentes desde Latinoamérica hacia el mundo”🌎! Conoce experiencias y oportunidades para realizar un doctorado o postdoc en el extranjero. 📅 2 de septiembre | 14:00–15:30 📍 Juriquilla, Querétaro ¡Te esperamos!
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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
✨ New LatinXDB interview! 🇧🇷 Meet Dr. Bruno Vellutini and learn about his passion for evo-devo, his research on mechanical forces during epithelial folding, and his commitment to science beyond the lab. Thanks, @bruvellu.bsky.social ! Read the full interview 👇 sites.google.com/view/latinxi...
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LatinxDB - Bruno Vellutini
Dr. Bruno Vellutini Federal University of Minas Gerais
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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
¿Participas en el XIV Congreso Nacional de la SMBD? 🇲🇽 ¡No pierdas la oportunidad de almorzar con la Dra. Maria Elena Torres-Padilla! 🥪🧬 📅 2 de Septiembre | 📍Juriquilla 🪑 ¡Cupo limitado! 👉 Postúlate: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Alex Eve @amjeve.uk · 26/07/2026
Many congratulations to @mayorlab.bsky.social, winner of the @socdevbio.bsky.social #2026SDB's Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize, which recognises Roberto's impact in supporting developmental biology in Latin America, including the Quintay Developmental Biology course & @lasdb.bsky.social.
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Latin American Developmental Biology @lasdb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The LASDB Online Seminar Series is a space created especially for young scientists to connect with outstanding researchers, exchange ideas, and expand their professional networks. uchile.zoom.us/j/9339767270... August 7th, 2026 9AM Mex 10AM Col,Ec,Perú 11AM Chile,USA-est,Boliv 12AM Arg,Urug,Brazil
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International Society of Developmental Biology @isdb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
‼️One week left to register to our 2027 EMBO Developmental Biology course in Quintay: biodesarrollo.unab.cl/how-to-apply We showed you 🪰, we showed you 🐥, now we'll show you some🥚 taken by 1 of our 2026 attendees. We also have 🐟, 🐸, and maybe even 🦑. I guess you'll have to go to find out! 😜
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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Attending #2026SDB? Stop by our Theme Table #9! Our team member @martinestermann.bsky.social will be there representing Latinx in DevBio. We'd love to meet you! 🌎🧬
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Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
‼️Great opportunity at the #CABD 📄PhD position at the @dariloops.bsky.social’s lab 🥼Amazing scientific environment 🌇Lively city (Sevilla) 🇪🇸 🔁Apply or share @swedbo.bsky.social @segenetica.bsky.social @sebioldev.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @sfbd.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
📬 Stay connected with Latinx in DB! Join our mailing list to receive updates about our initiatives, interviews, events, and other opportunities to connect with our community. 👉 Join here: mailchi.mp/7d3ca61c90fe... We look forward to growing this community together!🌎💙 #latinxDB #ResearchCommunity
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V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
⏳ Last week to apply! Join us at the 2026 V4SDB Student Summer School in Budapest - a great opportunity to connect with peers and explore spatial transcriptomics 🔥 🔗 Apply by June 21: v4sdb.org/2026-v4sdb-s...
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International Society of Developmental Biology @isdb.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The 2025 Quintay Dev Bio cohort is not just scientifically excellent but also ✨artistically✨ talented. They've generated some breathtaking photos 🔬🌈. Please VOTE for your favourite as the winning image will be the cover of an issue of @dev-journal.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-a-d...
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Vote for a Development cover from the Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology - the Node
Browse through the gallery of the 9 images and vote for your favourite by Wednesday, 24 June 2026.
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Latin American Developmental Biology @lasdb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We are renewing the logo !! We invite Latin American developmental biologists to participate in this contest. Please check: lasdb-development.org/pages/news.h...
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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Vote for a @dev-journal.bsky.social cover from the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology We’re excited to launch a cover competition to select an image from the 2025 cohort of @devbioquintay.bsky.social. Voting closes on 24 June 2026. thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-a-d...
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Vote for a Development cover from the Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology - the Node
Browse through the gallery of the 9 images and vote for your favourite by Wednesday, 24 June 2026.
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Daniel Ríos @yosoyden.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
We’re very excited to have our paper featured in the cover of @emboreports.org! Go check out our work to see more images like this one, and of course to learn more about the role of the ECM in tracheal-epidermal interactions during Drosophila embryogenesis 👇
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V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Curious about spatial transcriptomics? 🔬 Join the 2026 V4SDB Student Summer School, September 1–4 in beautiful Budapest 🇭🇺, and gain hands-on experience with this cutting-edge technology. 🧬 Apply by June 21! 🔗 v4sdb.org/2026-v4sdb-s...
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Estefania Sanchez-Vasquez @niasv.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
*** GRC Developmental Biology 2027 - Jan 17-22 @ Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort *** Join us for a fabulous 2027 Gordon Conference on all things #devbio & the trainee-led GRS! More info on registration, abstract submission, et al., here: www.grc.org/developmenta... #GRCDevBio2027 🧬🐭🐟🪰🌱❤️
Flier for the Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar 2027 on Developmental Biology, held at the Renaissance Touscany Il Ciocco Resort in Italy, January 17-22 2027. List of speakers, organizers, and tag line of Organizing Principles of Growth, Form, and Regeneration Driving Transformative Applications.
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
✨ 2026 SDB Art Show 🎨 SDB will host the show at the 85th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 Deadline: June 1st ‼️ Open to meeting attendees: 2D & 3D in "Research Images as Art" or "Art Inspired by Research" 🎨 More information: www.sdbonline.org/2026mtg_art_...
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Xenbase @xenbase.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
2nd Asian Xenopus Conference: August 24 (Mon) - 26 (Wed), 2026 - ST Convention Center, Seoul, Republic of Koreahttps://www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNewsRead.do?id=1051 #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs
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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Huge congratulations to Professor Roberto Mayor @mayorlab.bsky.social on becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society! Proud to celebrate a Latin American scientist whose work and career inspire our community worldwide. 🌎✨
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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🚨🤩 Quintay Developmental Biology Course!!
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Estefania Sanchez-Vasquez @niasv.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Traducción en español y portugués también!!!
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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🫀Meet Dr. Ariel Waisman (FLENI & CONICET 🇦🇷) Ariel studies why mammalian hearts lose regenerative ability after birth, using hPSCs to study cardiac regeneration. He’s also committed to mentoring young scientists in LatAm @waisman-ar.bsky.social 📖 Interview here: sites.google.com/view/latinxi...
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LatinxDB - Ariel waisman
Dr. Ariel Waisman Laboratory of applied research in neuroscience (LIAN) at FLENI & CONICET
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
✨ A developmental biology classic! Somitogenesis of a chick embryo 🐣 is lighting up in this fluorescent HCR staining. The notochord (Chordin 🟡) and somites (PAX7 💎) are labelled. 🔬 📸 credit: Tatiane Kanno #FluorescenceFriday #devbio
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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Next LASDB Congress in Brazil 🇧🇷 Don't miss it! #LatinxDB
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Daniel Ríos @yosoyden.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I'm very excited to contribute to @dev-journal.bsky.social through its 'In preprints' series! I'm anyways always following cool preprints with my lab, we'll have fun covering them or inviting colleagues to do so (:
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting is gonna be awesome! DEADLINE to register is June 1st! Sign up now! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
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Latin American Developmental Biology @lasdb.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We have launched a call for the renewal of the Society’s logo, and we invite developmental biologists working in Latin America, as well as Latin American developmental biologists working abroad, to participate in this contest. More information at lasdb-development.org/pages/news.h...
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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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
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feña Palominos @fishfena.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Read about our awesome chair @niasv.bsky.social. From the Peruvean Andes to the Californian coast 🧫 🧬 🧪 #stemcells
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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
✨ Meet Estefanía Sanchez-Vasquez, our 2025–2026 Chair. @niasv.bsky.social From exploring nature in the Andes to stem cell research, her journey shows where curiosity leads 🧬🔬 Now she pairs cutting-edge tools with mentorship to make academia more accessible. Read: sites.google.com/view/latinxi...
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LatinxDB - Estefania Sanchez
Dr. Estefanía Sánchez-Vásquez: LatinxDB Chair 2025-2026
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🚨 Last Day❗❗to submit your abstract for the Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting 2026 in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏 Don’t miss your chance to share your science, connect with the dev bio community, and join us in Vegas ➡️ www.sdbonline.org/2026mtg_abst... ✨ #SDB2026 #DevBio
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Daniel Ríos @yosoyden.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Yay! Our paper is now out @emboreports.org! I posted about it a while back (tinyurl.com/yc7td3px) but the work really improved thanks to the wonderful feedback from three anonymous reviewers 🙏 (1/4)
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Adhesion to a common ECM mediates interdependence in tissue morphogenesis in Drosophila - EMBO Reports
Organ functionality requires the precise coordination of diverse tissues during development. Halfway through Drosophila embryogenesis, two lateral epidermal sheets stretch to fuse at the dorsal midlin...
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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Opportunity for the Global South! #LatinxDB
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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
🥁 New Latinx in Dev Bio interview! From Argentina to the world 🇦🇷🌎🔬 Martín Estermann shares his journey, research, and exciting next step—starting his own lab at the Czech Academy of Sciences. @martinestermann.bsky.social Read here: sites.google.com/view/latinxi... #DevBio #LatinxInSTEM #NewPI
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LatinxDB - Martín Estermann
Dr. Martín Estermann: From Argentina to the world
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EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
PASEDB community 🤩 We are excited to announce our first Research Webinar series called: ⭐️EvoDevo Mondays⭐️ Save the date - April 13 With our amazing speakers @luiza-o-saad.bsky.social and João Francisco Botelho Session chair Professor Natalia Pabón-Mora #PASEDB #EvoDevoMondays #EvoDevo
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Martín Estermann @martinestermann.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🚨New paper out in Cell Reports ‼️ www.cell.com/cell-reports... Why do fetal Sertoli cells store glycogen 🍬 during testis development? It turns out they are feeding germ cells. We discovered a previously unrecognized metabolic coupling between Sertoli cells and germ cells in the fetal testis 🧵
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Glycogen and lactate metabolism in mouse fetal Sertoli cells sustain the germ line
Estermann and Sheheen et al. identified a metabolic coupling between fetal Sertoli and germ cells in mice, driven by glycogen breakdown and lactate transport through the MCT4/MCT1 shuttle. This intera...
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held Friday, February 13 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Martha Echevarría-Andino @uwmadison.bsky.social and M. Fernanda Palominos @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. Register today and join us. bit.ly/47QVIEK #SDBPostdocSeminar
Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series
Friday, March 13, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time
Martha Echevarría-Andino (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Hoxa11/Hoxd11 transcription factors regulate extracellular matrix genes during osteochondral differentiation
M. Fernanda Palominos (University of California, Berkeley)
Novel craniofacial genes linked to extreme jaw evolution in pupfishes revealed by tissue-specific transcriptomics and speciation genomics
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feña Palominos @fishfena.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Hi friends! Please check Dr. Rosa Navarro’s interview: she is a Professor and PI at #UNAM and the current President of the Mexican Society for Developmental Biology 🪱 🧬 🧫 #LatinaxinDevBio #DevBio #DevelopmentalBiology @lasdb.bsky.social Stay tuned as we highlight more #latinx scientists! 🫶
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Alt: a man in a white shirt is dancing in front of a crowd holding a football ball with “together, we are america” written on it
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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We’re launching our Latinx DevBio interview series 🌎🧬 Our first inspiring conversation features Dr. Rosa Navarro: Leading Developmental Biology research in Mexico. Read here: sites.google.com/view/latinxi... Thanks, Dr. Navarro, for sharing your journey and insights with us! #LatinxInScience
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LatinxDB - Interviews
“The only limit is your imagination”-Dr. Rosa Navarro.
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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Congratulations @mayorlab.bsky.social on this awesome-deserverd recognition by the @socdevbio.bsky.social ! Dr. Roberto Mayor career is a powerful example of the excellence, leadership, and creativity that #Latinx scientists bring to #DevelopmentalBiology!
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners! Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer bit.ly/4afnjiC
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Society for Developmental Biology 2026 Award Winners

Edwin G. Conklin Medal
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Lee Niswander, University of Colorado Boulder

Society for Developmental Biology Lifetime Achievement Award
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Alexandra Joyner, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize
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Roberto Mayor, University College London

Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award
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Jeffrey Farrell, National Institutes of Health
 
Society for Developmental Biology Trainee Science Communication Award
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Nicholas Desnoyer, The Sainsbury Laboratory
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UC Santa Cruz @ucsantacruz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Three years after a devastating fire threatened the Biblioteca Amazónica in Iquitos, Peru, UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of Latin American Literature Amanda M. Smith and her collaborators have completed the library’s first open-access digital archive.
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
📣 Applications Open! SDB is seeking applicants for the 2026 GetHIRED! Internship, a unique chance to gain hands-on experience supporting an e-course for postdocs entering the academic job market. 📆 Deadline: December 15, 2025. Learn more & apply today: www.sdbonline.org/gethired_int...
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Apply for our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs in #devbio and #stemcell research during the transition to their first group leader position: www.biologists.com/grants/devel... Application deadline: 2 February 2026.
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Support postdocs on the job market
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Lorena Maia @lorena-maia.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Happy to be part of this mission 🌎🧬🐸🔬#LatinxDB
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Martín Estermann @martinestermann.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I can’t believe it’s already been a year! 🎉 Grateful to share this initiative with such an amazing group of Latinx scientists in developmental biology 🙌 More to come! ✨
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Estefania Sanchez-Vasquez @niasv.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Vamos por más!
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latinxdb.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
✨ Proud to celebrate our first year as a network empowering Latinx developmental biologists worldwide. Thanks to everyone helping our mission—here’s to growth and stronger community 🌎 #LatinxDB #LatinxInScience #DevelopmentalBiology
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Hydra (Hydra vulgaris) ✨Small but mighty! Hydra can regenerate its entire body, even its head 🧠 A classic model for regeneration, stem cell dynamics, and body axis patterning 📸 Image by Daniel Bressan de Andrade #ModelMonday #DevBio #Regeneration
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