Summary: A guide to mechanics in development: unlock how forces, material properties and geometry shape the forms of life.

Epithelial stretching promotes the release of EGF receptor ligands that stimulate ERK activation.

The team behind the Drosophila genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat.

The mechanosensory lateral line system of aquatic vertebrates comprises a superficial network of distributed sensory organs, the neuromasts, which are…

Despite progress in probing tissue mechanics, direct long-term measurements in live embryonic epithelia are lacking. This limits our understanding of amniote embryonic morphogenesis, which takes place...

As Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati...

Cell vertices integrate forces in epithelia and play key roles in regulating barrier function. Jacobs et al. show that modulation of actomyosin contractility at cell vertices controls tricellular junc...

This course is at the forefront of new tools — molecular, computational, biophysical — as it prepares students to tackle emerging biological questions.

Cnidarian germ cells secrete TGF-β to induce gonad development, and gonads induce germ cells by activating Tfap2 in stem cells.