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...

How does the corneal lens in the fly eye acquire its light-focusing shape? This study shows that centrally located cells produce large amounts of chitin to form the thick central corneal lens, while p...

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Gene expression patterns underlie development, but their systematic detection in whole embryos has remained elusive. We introduce a whole-embryo imaging platform using multiplexed error-robust fluores...

Summary: This Review discusses recent insights into the factors controlling enhancer specificity and how this might help us understand the genetic basis of human disease.

Summary: This Review presents mechanical fracture as a unifying morphogenetic strategy and describes how developmental systems actively exploit mechanical fracture to drive morphogenesis, reproduction...

Author summary The uptake of materials from outside the cell and their subsequent delivery to specific intracellular locations are essential for cell function and survival. Two of the mechanisms that ...