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Cover: Analysis of the developing mouse lung using Tree Surveyor. Volumetric optical projection tomography data analysed by Tree Surveyor identifies individual branch segments (pseudocoloured in the right lobes) and maps and measures the elaborating branched structure (branch points and segment splines in the left lobe), providing a description of the developing organ in unprecedented detail. See Research article by Short et al. on p. 471. - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
DEVELOPMENT AT A GLANCE
REVIEW
DEVELOPMENT AND STEM CELLS
Developmentally coordinated extrinsic signals drive human pluripotent stem cell differentiation toward authentic DARPP-32+ medium-sized spiny neurons
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Transmembrane/cytoplasmic, rather than catalytic, domains of Mmp14 signal to MAPK activation and mammary branching morphogenesis via binding to integrin β1
TECHNIQUES AND RESOURCES
CORRIGENDUM
Macrophage migration inhibitory factor acts as a neurotrophin in the developing inner ear
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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 Sadaf Farooqi, 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 30 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.
In preprints
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