Embryonic development typically requires precise coordination among cells to achieve reproducible outcomes, leading to the assumption that cellular heterogeneity must be minimized or buffered against....

Applications are now open for up to five postdoctoral positions in the area of developmental epigenetics.

Summary: This Review contains an overview of placental vascular development and pathologies in mice and humans and highlights key remaining questions in the field.

Using four-dimensional whole-embryo light sheet imaging with improved and accessible computational tools, we longitudinally reconstruct early murine cardiac development at single-cell resolution. Nasc...

Time-lapse footage reveals cardiac cells in a mouse embryo begin to organise themselves during early development

ABSTRACT. Developing user-friendly image analysis software is essential for advancing biological and life science research. However, the interdisciplinary gap between software developers and life scie...

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As an Editor of the journal Development, I often hear complaints about peer review. We all know the problems - from lengthy review times to requests for seemingly unnecessary experiments. I agree with many of these complaints. Katherine Brown (Executive Editor of Development) and I recently wrote an editorial about this in which we talk about some of the things Development is doing to mitigate the worst of the problems.

We're all familiar with complaints about peer review. Some think it's biased – editors (especially from ‘those’ journals) seem to have too much power to decide what gets published. It can be opaque – ...