This epic paper, which has been a heroic 10 year journey for the lead author, Ricardo Barrientos, is finally out in Cell today! Many thanks to all co-authors, especially Billie Meadowcroft and Andela Saric for their beautiful MD simulations www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Basement membrane turnover controls cell shape

Basement membranes are scaffolds of proteins, like collagen, that give organs shape. During development, basement membranes must adapt to the growing organ. We infer how fast the basement membrane ada...

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A huge congratulations to Zheng and the entire Guo lab for this beautiful story! Very cool mechanism! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Intestinal stem cells count self-renewal divisions to switch multipotency - Nature

In Drosophila, cell fate switching in adult intestinal stem cells is determined through an epigenetic mechanism in which these cells count divisions, switching from producing enterocytes to producing ...

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www.nature.com/articles/s41... how cool!

Intestinal stem cells count self-renewal divisions to switch multipotency - Nature

In Drosophila, cell fate switching in adult intestinal stem cells is determined through an epigenetic mechanism in which these cells count divisions, switching from producing enterocytes to producing ...

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Beautiful talk from @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social, #ISSCR2026 plenary speaker & @dev-journal.bsky.social Associate Editor, on sex differences & plasticity during reproduction. Especially enjoyed the emphasis on fruit flies as powerful models for studying biology! Learn more about this work below⤵️

Growth of the maternal intestine during reproduction

(Cell 188, 2738--2756.e22; May 15, 2025)

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The awesome trio of @lmescu.bsky.social @fpichaud.bsky.social and Fernando Casares (and their teams) are on fire Fly eyes represent 'programmable metamaterials'; human engineering principles pre-exist in biology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A natural programmable metamaterial controls 3D curvature of compound eyes - Nature Communications

This article uncovers a natural, programmable metamaterial in the developing Drosophila eye. The precise 3D curvature of the adult compound eye is programmed during development by a microscopic, 2D tr...

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As Editor of @dev-journal.bsky.social I get asked "What are you doing about your impact factor?" In our new editorial we say: Ask not what Dev can do for the impact factor. Ask what you can do for Dev's IF The IF is about how we all cite, review & assess each other's work doi.org/10.1242/dev....

The elephant in the room: impact factor

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 ...

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Congratulation to our fantastic PhD student Utkarsh Bhore on winning second place at the AI First Startups Hackathon. Well done, Utkarsh, we are very proud of you!!

☕ Coffee break video - #ListerFellow Vilaiwan Fernandes talks about her developmental neurobiology research 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARu0... Then read our recent Q&A 👉 lister-institute.org.uk/news/in-conv... @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

How Brain Cells Grow and Connect: Inside Dr Vilaiwan Fernandes’ Research

YouTube video by UCL Faculty of Life Sciences

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Our superstar Jessica Perochon is one of this year's Pathway to Independence Fellows. Congrats Jess! We are so happy and proud of you!!

Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are pleased to welcome 8 new fellows to our Pathway to Independence programme. Welcome Maëlle Bellec, @iamzico.bsky.social, @evhealy.bsky.social, @josepmercadal.bsky.social, @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social, Jessica Perochon, Yamini Ravichandran & Margherita Zamboni. Read more⤵️ tinyurl.com/4bk4wrk7

We are pleased to welcome 8 new fellows to our Pathway to Independence programme. Welcome Maëlle Bellec, @iamzico.bsky.social, @evhealy.bsky.social, @josepmercadal.bsky.social, @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social, Jessica Perochon, Yamini Ravichandran & Margherita Zamboni. Read more⤵️ tinyurl.com/4bk4wrk7

Our latest paper is now online. Thanks to all our co-authors for your invaluable contribution. Especial kudos to Karen Bellec, Lynsey Carroll and co-corresponding author Rippei Hayashi for the many years dedicated to the advancement of this project. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Non-gonadal PIWIL1/Aubergine drives regenerative and tumorigenic stem cell proliferation in the intestine

The PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNA) biosynthesis pathway is best studied for its role in suppressing Drosophila germline transposable elements. Piwi, the…

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Congratulations to our very own @ameliejoly.bsky.social on being awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions European Postdoctoral Fellowship. Excited to see where it takes her!

Join us next week!

Metabolism in Development and Physiology, Virtual Seminar Series@devmetphys.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are very excited for the next Zoom seminar of Metabolism in Development & Physiology! 12th of March, 3pm CET/ 2pm GMT/ 9am EST Our speakers are: Kathryn Wellen (University of Pennsylvania) Saraswathi Pillai (Columbia University) Sign up to get the Zoom link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣Register now for the Beatson International Cancer Conference 2026 ‘From Tumour Genesis to Metastasis: an immune perspective’ 📅22-25 June 2026 📍CRUK Scotland Institute, Glasgow 🎟️Early Bird registration closes on 1 April 🔗 www.beatsonconference.org #BICC2026 #CancerResearch #Immunology

⚡👩‍🔬Electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth, a new study! Out now in Science Advances, from the Mateus group @ritamateus.bsky.social at PoL and @mpi-cbg.de along with the lab of Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social Read the news here: tud.link/7jzptz Video:©️ Mateus group

Read the Research Report ‘Ecdysone-mediated intestinal growth contributes to microbiota-driven developmental plasticity under malnutrition’ here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

To learn more about how this paper developed and the people behind it, we talked to first author Longwei Bai and corresponding author François Leulier, Director and Group Leader at Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (@igflyon.bsky.social) in France. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

A new way to tackle liver and bowel cancers has been discovered @cruk-si.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scientists discover potential new treatment to tackle cancer

The research focused on the genetic faults that allow the disease to hijack a signalling system in the body.

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While the lunatic-in-chief deviates the world’s attention, the 70+ years apartheid and genocide by the occupation forces continue at full speed apple.news/Abbh-m89ES6m...

'Systematic asphyxiation of Palestinian rights' | UN report urges Israel to eradicate 'racial segregation and apartheid' in West Bank — Haaretz

Israel dismissed the 42-page report as a 'politically driven vilification,' which said tightened movement restrictions on Palestinians have fractured the West Bank, easing Israeli military control and...

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Now that is cool!

Waggoner Lab@labwaggoner.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Estrogen tunes a cross-talk between hormone-secreting cells in the mouse gut to regulate visceral pain www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org @hollyingraham.bsky.social

We are hiring! Professor of Epithelial Stem Cell Biology & Cancer (Ref 189213) - Closing Date 7th Jan 2026 www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/professo... 🔬

I am proud to present my latest research at the ISSCR 2026 Annual Meeting, taking place in Montréal, Canada on 8-11 July 2026. Register to hear my presentation! #ISSCR2026 invt.io/1bxbzdbzjfq @isscr.org

I'm speaking at ISSCR 2026 Annual Meeting, join me

Register now

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Human gut M cells resemble dendritic cells and present gluten antigen @nature.com @hansclevers.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oh and check out the "behind the paper" from @neurogut.bsky.social !!!!

Bryon Silva@neurogut.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Ten years in the making. For the full story behind the data, read the "Behind the Paper" piece 😉

A JAK/STAT-Pdk1-S6K axis bypasses systemic growth restrictions to promote regeneration #Drosophila

📣 New paper alert 📣 Neurons need fuelling up to work, but how? Beauty of a work piece by our GutSense postdoc @neurogut.bsky.social before he joined us! Congrats to the Preat and Plaçais team @espciparispsl.bsky.social!

Bryon Silva@neurogut.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Textbooks said neurons don’t burn fatty acids for energy🤔. Our study delivers the first in vivo demonstration that fatty acid oxidation in defined memory neurons fuels memory formation. Closing chapter of my PhD 🥳, out today in Nature Metabolism💥 @natmetabolism.nature.com

A 4-year fully funded international PhD project in the lab in collaboration with Johan Vande Voorde. Apply if you are interested in working on an exciting project on CRC and interorgan communication in flies and mice. www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/cruk-si-educ...

Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026 Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en

We’re back with the Metabolism in Development & Physiology online seminar series 🎉 Thu 11 Dec 2025, 16:00 CET Speakers: Heather Christofk (Professor, UCLA) Yuanlingzi Tian (PostDoc, University of Glasgow)

The second November issue is online. -> www.embopress.org/toc/14693178... The cover features work by Tina Mukherjee and co-workers showing that #macrophage metabolic #reprogramming during dietary stress influences adult body size in #Drosophila. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....