Focus on techniques and resources
Technical innovations play a key role in the advancement of the developmental biology field, offering the potential to open up research challenges that once seemed intractable. Development recognises the importance of these advances, and our ‘Techniques and Resources’ section exists to promote papers that describe a novel technique, a substantial advance of an existing technique, or a new resource that will have a significant impact on developmental biology research.
In this collection, we showcase some of our recent Techniques and Resources papers, as well as review-based articles that discuss newly developed tools and approaches in the field, especially for the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) 83rd Annual meeting. These papers cover a wide spectrum of animal and plant developmental and stem cell biology. We believe that these articles serve an important function in promoting the dissemination of new techniques and resources throughout the community, and hopefully inspires new research directions; we welcome your submissions.
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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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