Writing a textbook on developmental biology is, today, a dangerous task. The amount of data being produced in labs all over the world overwhelms every effort to be up to date, or to be fair to every developmental biologist in the business. Today, the study of developmental biology entails a vast array of conceptual frameworks, methodologies and exploration tools, making it all but impossible to cover ad extenso the sources, applications and directions of research. As a result, textbooks on developmental biology, while trying to cover as much ground as possible, have to focus on some specific issues. The convergence of genetics and embryology on the key problems faced by developmental biologists makes both disciplines absolutely necessary in an entry-level book such as this one. A winning book also has to look at mechanisms that bridge genetics and embryology to show how regulatory gene networks relate to cell biology, hint...
Interviews with Biologists @ 100 conference speakers
Explore our interviews with keynote speakers from the Biologists @ 100 conference, hosted to celebrate our publisher’s 100th anniversary, where we discuss climate change and biodiversity with Hans-Otto Pörtner and Jane Francis, health and disease with Charles Swanton and emerging technologies with Manu Prakash and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz.
Call for papers – Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues
Development invites you to submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues. This issue will be coordinated by Guest Editors Meritxell Huch (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany) and Mansi Srivastava (Harvard University and Museum of Comparative Zoology, USA), working alongside our team of academic Editors. Submit your articles by 15 May 2025.
A case for broadening our view of mechanism in developmental biology
In this Perspective, B. Duygu Özpolat and colleagues survey researchers on their views on what it takes to infer mechanism in developmental biology. They examine what factors shape our idea of what we mean by ‘mechanism’ and suggest a path forward that embraces a broad outlook on the diversity of studies that advance knowledge in our field.
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How to build a community site for developmental biologists
Our community site, the Node, has been serving the developmental and stem cell biology community for 15 years. In this post, our Community Manager, Joyce Yu, shares how the Node was born and describes how to build a community site from scratch.
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