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preLighters with expertise across developmental and stem cell biology nominate a few recent developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints they’re excited about and explain in a few paragraph why. Concise preprint highlights, prepared by the preLighter community – a quick way to spot upcoming trends, new methods and fresh ideas.

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The Medical Research Council provided £750K in funding for the National Mouse Genetics Network’s Business Engagement Fund with a call for applications in early 2023. The Business Engagement Fund supported 3–12-month projects, providing grants of £15–100K, with the expectation that matched funding would be provided by industry collaborators. Funded projects were designed t...


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Sir David Attenborough turned 100 yesterday!

Sure, we do what we do for the maths, physics and molecular biology underlying development and evolution … but also out of fascination for the beauty and complexity of Life.

So, we decided to produce a 3.5-minute movie in which an extraordinary guest celebrates Attenborough’s birthday.

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Date: 6-9 December 2026

Location: Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK

Organisers: Elena Casacuberta and James Gahan

One of the central questions in developmental biology is how different cell fates are generated from a single founding cell. Although great strides have been made in our understanding ...


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This meeting was particularly meaningful to me, as it marked my first engagement with the developmental biology community in India since beginning my academic training abroad four years ago in 2021. I joined the laboratory of Smadar Ben-Tabou de-Leon at the University of Haifa, Israel, for my master’s research and subsequently continued in the same group for my doctoral studi...


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