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Development, host of the Node, invites you to submit your latest research to our upcoming Special Issue – Human Development. This issue will be coordinated by Guest Editor Hongmei Wang 王红梅 (State Key Laboratory of Organ Regeneration and Recons...

If you have been working with data science tools, Python, and R for a while, you know the struggle of working with multiple dependencies for each library/package. I recently found myself staring at a massive, cluttered work/ directory full of Nextflow environments. It felt like my system was groaning under the weight of gigabytes of stale dependencies. That is the exact momen...

[Editorial from Development’s latest Special Issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells, edited by Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya.]

Developmental biology has traditionally been viewed as the study of the activity of genes and cells as functional units. However, cells do not exist in a vacuum, and the contrib...

How is it possible that cnidarians evolved so many different ways to acomplish the same thing? Unipolar and multipolar ingression, invagination, delamination, epiboly… All the paths lead to ‘planula’ – a torpedo bilayered swiming larva.The term is ‘equifinal development’ and it concerns interspecific and also intraespecific variations, which are quite common among cnidarians ...

The recent deluge of Substack and Medium articles, promising strategies and frameworks to work effectively and to complete tasks with intentionality, would have some to believe that the ‘P’ in PhD stands for “productivity” and not Philosophy. As if these neatly bound systems are the golden recipe for delivering excellent work. Yet, this perfectly packaged lie is fu...