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Heterochronic limb patterning in marsupials reveals flexibility in the processes underlying lateral plate mesoderm morphogenesis | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Heterochronic limb patterning in marsupials reveals flexibility in the processes underlying lateral plate mesoderm morphogenesis

Accelerated limb formation in marsupials reveals canonical developmental landmarks aren’t strict prerequisites for initiation.

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In @natcomms.nature.com, FMI scientists show that before Hydra regrows a head or foot, its cells first rebuild an internal map—working out both where they are and what stage of regeneration they’ve reached—which may help explain how tissues repair themselves after injury. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...

Hydra rebuilds the body by restoring its internal cellular map

Before Hydra can regrow a head or foot, its cells appear to rebuild the internal map that tells them where they are and what they should become next, FMI researchers report. The work suggests that cel...

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Sharing a big update: I started a group at the MPINAT in Göttingen! We will develop AI for analyzing how proteins interact in the cellular environment based on cutting edge imaging. This appointment is in parallel to the university, where I will retain my current group.

MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences@mpi-nat.bsky.social · last mo.

AI meets cutting-edge microscopy: Welcome Constantin Pape, head of our new Machine Intelligence in the Life Sciences group! 👋 🔬 His team develops AI methods to analyze high-resolution microscopy & cryo-EM data to better understand the function of proteins and protein complexes inside cells. (1/3)

The 2nd part of my postdoc is now out as a preprint! A challenging but fulfilling team effort to perform genome editing in opossums. We found that the lncRNA RSX is essential to initiate X-inactivation in marsupials 🦘 A long-standing question since the discovery that Xist is absent in marsupials 👇

Turner Lab@lab-turner.bsky.social · last mo.

New preprint 📢 Thrilled to share our long-awaited work on the role of RSX in marsupial X-inactivation. This was a huge team effort over the years, led by @aureliencourtois.bsky.social @sermenchero.bsky.social Sugako Ogushi and Waz Varsally, that allowed us to set up genome editing in opossum embryos

Greetings from sunny Montreal! 🇨🇦 Looking forward to the start of #ISSCR2026 💫

👋Attending the @isscr.org meeting in Montreal this week? Our #StemCell & development editor @slefkopoulos.bsky.social will be there and happy to chat - message him! #ISSCR2026 🍰In the meantime, take a look at our new Collection of stem cell-based #embryo model papers: www.nature.com/collections/...

Stem cell-based embryo models

Because of their ability to simulate certain aspects of embryonic development, stem cell-based embryo models can be a promising tool in our efforts to better ...

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🚀Excited to share our latest efforts in bringing highly multiplexed whole-mount imaging to intact multicellular systems! Shield-4i: an integrated platform to study multi-scale information flow in 3D embryos and embryo-like systems. Kudos to @rhornb.bsky.social for this major milestone in the lab!🚀

Join us on a journey into the dynamics of cells during embryo development. We are offering a fully funded PhD position to investigate cell behavior using cutting-edge quantitative live imaging at the interface of Development, Immunity, and Tissue Biology. embryobioimaging.com

Paying peer reviewers Interview with @danielgorelick.bsky.social about @biologyopen.bsky.social Fast & Fair trial in which peer reviewers were paid £220/review Spoiler: it works - fast, high quality reviews www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

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Super excited that the first preprint from the lab is out! Led by an amazing student, Gaurav @gvaidya.bsky.social, jointly supervised with @mwdorr.bsky.social.

Gaurav Vaidya@gvaidya.bsky.social · last mo.

The first preprint from my PhD is out! :thread: How does an animal choose between two completely different reproductive fates? Here’s how one planarian does it :point_down: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New in @dev-journal.bsky.social: how tissue shape tells cells what to become Using human stem-cell neuruloids, we show how that physical boundaries encode positional information that drives cell fate patterning in a model of trunk formation A thread 🧵 journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Boundary constraints can determine pattern emergence

Summary: A reaction-diffusion mechanism recapitulates pattern emergence in an in vitro model of neuromesodermal progenitors under a variety of boundary and geometrical perturbations.

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Excited to share that our work on ‘How the gut gets patterned during regeneration’ is out now cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(26)00696-3 Thanks a lot to @priscaliberali.bsky.social @silviabarbiero.bsky.social @davidbrueckner.bsky.social @ehannezo.bsky.social and all co-authors! 🧵

Multiscale integration of tissue and chromatin context converts cell heterogeneity into stable intestinal patterning

During regeneration, tissues must translate transient cellular variability into stable spatial organization. Tissue architecture generates a density-dependent window of heterogeneity in the mechanosen...

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☕He, Wang, Ding et al. report a transcriptomic atlas of human female reproductive tract segments from fetuses at gestational weeks 10 to 25. 👉https://rdcu.be/fq3ms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Segmental specification of the human female fetal reproductive tract revealed by spatiotemporal dynamics - Nature Cell Biology

He, Wang, Ding and colleagues report a transcriptomic atlas of human female reproductive tract segments from fetuses at gestational weeks 10 to 25.

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Spectacular preprint led by @sydsat.bsky.social in @ohnolog.bsky.social lab, @uwgenome.bsky.social. Neutrophils precede gastrulation in killifish and rapidly patrol the yolk. (1/2)

Early immune cell development precedes gastrulation in annual killifish

During embryogenesis, cell types arise in a predictable order because developmental regulators act sequentially. But how evolutionary changes in morphogenesis reshape the signaling environments that a...

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If you're looking to queer up your timelines with enriching STEM content this #Pride, then @prideinstem.bsky.social has you covered with these three excellent starter packs! go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf go.bsky.app/Cw9bRYZ go.bsky.app/Cw9bRYZ Lift queer voices this month!

For @science.org, I reported on fascinating research from @nuduncanlab.bsky.social that has found that the ovaries undergo a surprising transformation after menopause. www.science.org/content/arti...

After menopause, ovaries may transform into organs with immune powers

Mouse and human data suggest ovaries develop a new function after reproductive duties end

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Mapping and engineering the human cell–cell interactome - @uclasamueli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mapping and engineering the human cell–cell interactome - Nature Biotechnology

Di Carlo and colleagues discuss technologies required to map and engineer the human cell–cell interactome and the therapeutic avenues such an atlas could unlock.

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Congratulations, Anna Erzberger! The EMBL Group Leader has received the Inaugural Suzanne Eaton ‘Rising Star’ Award for Physics of Life in 2026, presented by @poldresden.bsky.social. Learn more: www.embl.org/news/awards-...

Double preprint! 👇 Check out our latest studies on timing, heterogeneity and collective behaviour (with a fun tiny bonus on evolution!) 1. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 2. arxiv.org/abs/2605.13234

Cellular timing heterogeneity regulates phase transitions in living matter

Rigidity transitions govern tissue organization in ways reminiscent of inert materials. Yet, living tissues are composed of active units with autonomous timing mechanisms, raising the question whether...

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Lena Schindler@lena-schindler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am thrilled to share my PhD work with @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @embl.org: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... A fun collaboration with Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Adrián Aguirre-Tamaral, @bart-smeets.bsky.social , Jef Vanghel and Tom Belpaire! Read the story in the comments below ⤵️

Happy to finally share that I will be starting my independent group at the @fmiscience.bsky.social in Feb 2027 in a vibrant new environment. We will use integrative in situ structural cell biology methods to investigate ciliary structure and dynamics in several model (and non-model 👀) systems!!

Applications are open for the international course “Developmental Biology” organized by the Institut Curie in partnership with @sorbonne-universite.fr 📅 Oct. 19–28, 2026 (Paris) ⏳ Jul. 19 & Sept. 18 🔗 training.institut-curie.org/courses/developmental-biology-2026

Preprints are used in evaluations in most sensible funding bodies, including ERC, and should be THE evaluation tool of the work. That ‘come back when you have published the work’ states where we are at, the degradation of Science that we are achieving.

Many thanks to organisers and @snsf.ch for a meeting of academic parity movement, european dialog against academic bullying. Many valuable discussions and important points on making academia a better and a more fair place for researchers across all career stages

I am honoured to have received the Otto Hahn Medal! Thank you Jan @brugueslab.bsky.social, @ursa-ursic.bsky.social, Michael Staddon, @mpi-cbg.de, and @poldresden.bsky.social for your support during this scientific journey!

Brugues Lab@brugueslab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It was an honor to introduce @alisonkickuth.bsky.social during the Otto Hahn medal ceremony from the @maxplanck.de in recognition for her amazing PhD, where she discovered a new mechanism for unilateral cytokinesis (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

This will be on 26 June in Paris! 🤩You are welcome to join and participate in this exciting 1-day conference at the College de France on Biological computational accross areas of biology. Fantastic speakers. Free, no registration, at the heart of Paris on a lovely season. Worth planning a weekend…?

Thomas Lecuit@thomaslecuit.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Here is the announcement of a Symposium @college-de-france.fr on 26 June on Information Flow and Computation in Biological systems. A great line of speakers on a variety of topics from embryogenesis to neuroscience, immunology and microbiology. Free entrance, come if you are in Paris end of June 🤩

Unplanned reunion with former @embldbunit.bsky.social labmates @aliseleit.bsky.social and @jorgelazaro.bsky.social at #EED2026!!

Congratulations to Marylène Bonvin, who defended her PhD thesis last week! Her work explored how metabolism and gene regulation help Hydra — a tiny freshwater animal famous for regeneration — organize and maintain its body plan 👏

hello world. Excited to launch the Ingelfinger Lab account! We’re a young lab in Germany’s Black Forest tackling key questions in immunology with innovative single-cell technologies. Follow us for updates on systems immunology, machine learning & translational oncology. fi

⚡ Our paper is now out in @natphys.nature.com ! This version now includes a detailed molecular characterisation of the optogenetic perturbations, new insights on the relevance of tricellular junctions for tissue morphology, and beautiful light-sheet timelapses. 🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Adhesion-driven rigidity transition decoupled from density-driven jamming triggers epithelial organization in embryonic tissues - Nature Physics

Tissue phase transitions are key to morphogenesis. Now adhesion-driven rigidification is identified as key to epithelial organization but only if uncoupled from density-driven jamming.

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Laura Rustarazo-Calvo@laura-rustarazo.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 Excited to share our new work: “Adhesion-driven tissue rigidification triggers epithelial cell polarity”, now on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social ! A huge thank you to @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social, Bernat, @crisp-c.bsky.social, Adrián, and everyone involved! 🙌 🧵⤵️