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🚨 Call for preLighters!🚨 Help us highlight the most exciting biological preprints. Share your insights, build your profile, and be part of a supportive community! 🌍 Interested? Apply today & help shape the future of science publishing! 📢 More info: prelights.biologists.com/news/join-the-…

ASCL1 can’t always make neurons alone… In this 2‑minute #Short, Jethro @lundie_brown explains how chromatin priming and co‑factors shape cell fate decisions in embryonic stem cells. #StemCells #DevBio youtube.com/shorts/UB2esAf…

preLighters’ choice – A curated selection of recent preprints In this post on the Node, read concise #preprint highlights of recent #DevBio and #StemCell biology papers prepared by the @preLights community. thenode.biologists.com/prelighters-ch…

Aquatic adventures in heart regeneration❤️ Study from the @simoesfili Lab looks at zebrafish hearts after cryoinjury to identify ligand-receptor circuits and macrophage states that facilitate #regeneration. #preprint #preLight by Theodora Stougiannou ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/car…

Pairing acute SUZ12 degradation + simplified embryoids, Ming-Kang Lee and team pinpoint time-dependent sensitivities to PRC2 loss. #preprint #MeissnerLab Check out the latest #preLight prepared by María Mariner-Faulí 👀⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/tem…

Friction at the tip keeps the Drosophila germ band straight against innate instabilities. #DevBio Ruoheng Li (@LiRuoheng36210) highlights a #preprint from @GiuliaSerafin12 and colleagues @PavelTomancak Lab #preLight + an insightful author response 👀⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/emb…

The challenge of in vitro gametogenesis. #DevBio Alan Leung highlights a #preprint from the Hamer’s Lab that identifies the specific metabolites and proteins in immature hPGCLSc that could create a maturation bottleneck. #preLight + an author response ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/htt…

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Head to @prelights website and read a preprint about changes in gut microbiome over the course of multiple sclerosis, chosen by Carole Djagang, Nour HAROUN, Phalica Georges and uMontreal Neuro preLighters. Prelight: bit.ly/4tFP63g Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/2026.…

Sun2: the great separator of healthy tissue repair and pathological fibrosis? Emma Carley, Sandra Sandria & colleagues show that Sun2 is a key modulator of the fibroblast response #preprint Beth Chopak highlights their work and speaks to Sandra Sandria⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/los…

Interested in genetically encodable inhibitors of your favorite biomolecular condensate? Excited to announce our latest work, w/ @jibin_sadasivan, @GeneWeiLiLab, & @LindsayCase19, on protein fragments as generalizable regulators of phase separation. (1/n) biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

What’s new in #DevBio? 👀 Our preLighters Theodora, @sandaklyj, @NathSristilekha & @DeevithaB have handpicked a selection of exciting #preprints in this area. Check out the #preList and let us know your favourite, recent DevBio preprint ⬇️: prelights.biologists.com/prelists/preli…

The vasculature system as mapped by CODA. Color coded by radius size and Strahler order. We found that the vasculature for mouse, rhesus macaque, chicken, and turtle have the same scale-free space-filling fractal geometry (D = 3). Here: biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

The incredible shrinking cells: a guide to efficient downsizing @AnastasiaMorai highlights research from Ana Garoña, Marco Fumasoni and team uncovering a putative mechanism for cell size evolution. #preprint #evolution #cellbio #preLight⤵️ : prelights.biologists.com/highlights/exp…

Excited that our TRU-FACT preprint is now live! TRU-FACT links what individual neurons do in vivo, with who they are molecularly, and who they connect to. As a neurologist, I’m excited by its potential for understanding and treating circuit disorders. bit.ly/42kictR

1/7🎉 Introducing Phoenix: generative AI predicting spatially resolved gene expression from routine H&E slides-enabling virtual spatial-omics. Zero-shot. Across cancers, organs & species. Huge thanks to my co-first @TranManuel & all collaborators! 🙌 📜: doi.org/10.64898/2026.…

Meet our Preprint Editors We are pleased to welcome our first group of Preprint Editors to our editorial team, responsible for handling our 'In preprints' articles. #preprints #preprinteds" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/edit…

🧵 1/10 Inferring mechanistic gene-regulatory programs from single-cell data in a principled, scalable way remains a central challenge in systems biology. Our new paper introduces Probability Flow Matching (PFM) to tackle it: 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2604.25062

Cells can look jammed but still move like a fluid! 💧 Sindhu (@sindhu__16) highlights work from the #NotbohmLab describing fluidisation when cell-cell adhesions were weakened, without any change in cell shape. #preprint #biophysics #preLight ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/sha…