The Company of Biologists: celebrating 100 years
2025 marks 100 years since the formation of The Company of Biologists, which was set up in 1925 to save The British Journal of Experimental Biology (now Journal of Experimental Biology). As part of our celebrations, we are sharing content with you about the past, present and future of the Company, our journals and charitable activities throughout our anniversary year. This content will be spread across each the five journals that we publish today: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. We are diving into our archives and reaching out to extraordinary members of our community to bring you new and original material that is related to our anniversary. As well as discussing the Company's history and activities, we are publishing articles reviewing the development of our field. We hope that you will find these stories interesting and, to learn more about the other activities we have planned in 2025, please visit The Company of Biologists’ anniversary page.
The articles published so far in the journal are listed below and you can see the growing collection of articles from all of our journals on our cross-title collection page.

Call for Papers – Infectious Disease: Evolution, Mechanisms and Global Health

Showcase your latest research on our upcoming Special Issue: Infectious Disease: Evolution, Mechanisms and Global Health. This issue will be coordinated by DMM Editors Sumana Sanyal and David Tobin alongside Guest Editors Judi Allen and Russell Vance. The deadline for submitting articles to this Special Issue has been extended to Monday 24 February 2025.
About us

Our publisher, The Company of Biologists, turns 100 this year. Read about the history of the Company and find out what Sarah Bray, our Chair of the Board of Directors, has to say.
Biologists @ 100 - join us in Liverpool in March 2025

We are excited to invite you to a unique scientific conference, celebrating the 100-year anniversary of The Company of Biologists, and bringing together our different communities. The conference will incorporate a DMM programme on antimicrobial resistance on 26 March 2025. Find out more and register to join us in March 2025 in Liverpool, UK. The final deadline to register is 28 February 2025.
It's about time: the heterochronic background for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

In this Editorial, Bruce Wightman writes about the groundwork laid by investigating the timing of developmental events in nematodes which led to the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Read & Publish Open Access publishing: what authors say

We have had great feedback from authors who have benefitted from our Read & Publish agreement with their institution and have been able to publish Open Access with us without paying an APC. Read what they had to say.