Screenshot of a journal editorial webpage titled “Development’s 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize,” dated 8 April 2026. Authors listed are James Briscoe, Alex Eve, and Steve Wilson. The page introduces the Outstanding Paper Prize, includes article information, a DOI link, and text recognising papers published in Development in 2025.

Congratulations to Xi Yang, Yun Zhou & co for winning our 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize. Their paper addresses broad & long-standing questions about how cells become new stem cell populations in the fern Ceratopteris.

Read the Editorial: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Paper: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Wunderbar! Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Prof. Endlich 🎉 #zebrafish

English translation: Greifswald kidney researcher Prof. Nicole Endlich receives the Federal Cross of Merit!

Fluorescence microscopy image showing neurons virally labeled in red in a slice of mouse brain tissue at the level of the frontal cortex that are projecting to the ventral tegmental area

For #FluorescenceFriday, labeled neurons in the mouse frontal cortex (vague as all get out just for @markgbaxter.bsky.social 😉) that project to the ventral tegmental area. Image credit to RA Daniel Olivares on the Circuits team @lieberinstitute.bsky.social 🔬🧠

New preprint out! We show how cellular nematic order can be harnessed to program tissue-wide force fields and guide 3D shape transformations.

The tissue morphogenesis logic, now engineered into living, programmable materials.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#ActiveMatter #TissueEngineering

Happy #MicroscopyMonday!

This image shows the underside of a skeletal preparation of a little skate (Leucoraja erinacea) hatchling.

Imaged by Andrew Gillis, an associate scientist at the MBL.

One last try... 😫👇

Happy #fluorescencefriday (and start of vacation!) to all those who are celebrating
Lifeact-labeled epidermal stem cells closing a wound after in vivo adult zebrafish skin injury

dissecting & combating #CNS #scarring

Featured image with Nat Prunet - FocalPlane Featured image with Nat Prunet - News

We are delighted to share this week’s featured image from Nat Prunet @nat-prunet.bsky.social, showcasing pollen grains from various plant species. Read our post to discover more about the image and learn about Nat’s research.

#FluorescenceFriday

focalplane.biologists.com/2026/03/27/f...

#Cilia are beautiful!

That's it, that's the tweet.

Oh, and Happy #FluorescenceFriday 🔬

ICYMI

New work from Drummond Lab @mdibl.org

🔗 to paper: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Killifish community:

Special congrats to @hlemmik.bsky.social, @thezgs.bsky.social, @nathaliejuya.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social, @jrmarmor.bsky.social, @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social, @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social, @ehannezo.bsky.social, @mvargam.eurosky.social, & @fabianlab.bsky.social among others! 🎉 #YouRock

A sad day for the zebrafish community 🙃
Wish you all the best!! It's always exciting diving into a new model organism 🥳

I don't really know😅 but I found this paper:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Apparently they form "from the coalescence of short actin-filled precursor protrusions called pegs"

Follow-up from last week’s #FluorescenceFriday 🐟✨

Took a closer look at the gill comb “tooth” — the actin microridges of the enveloping epithelial layer almost look like microscopic fingerprints, each with a distinct pattern

#Zebrafish #DevBio #Microscopy #SciArt

Our SPECIAL ISSUE on MOLECULAR EVOLUTION & ECOLOGY is out!
Editorial: @yehumoran.bsky.social, @berndpulverer.bsky.social et al
Reviews on Asgard archaea, epimutations, giant-virus/host dynamics, smartphone analogy for animal origins…
…& many related primary articles
link.springer.com/journal/4431...

Pupae and pupal gut in wt and Mmp2-knockdown

New paper from @uwe689.bsky.social !

Muscle and #ECM remodeling during fly metamorphosis is still poorly understood. Why? Pupae are really hard to work with.

Uwe took on the challenge and explored how Mmp2 contributes to this amazing morphogenetic process.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#cellbio

Just combed through my old data… et voilà: a tooth of the gill comb. 🐟✨ #FluorescenceFriday

#zebrafish #DevBio #SciArt

A solar flare erupting on a glass coverslip ☀️🔬

This mouse cell has broken symmetry, erupting to drive itself across the surface.

🧡 Actin: Sweeping golden kinetic energy
🩵 Septin 7: Swirling membrane regulation
🩷 Lipids: Burning metabolic fuel
💙 DNA: The anchored core

#SciArt #FluorescenceFriday

I am extremely happy to see @maikbischoff.bsky.social receive the Hilde Mangold Prize from @gfeev.bsky.social 🥳
Couldn’t be more deserved. Absolute mad lad 👏

1st McKinley Lab grad student’s 1st preprint!
@claireang.bsky.social studied how the uterus safely excises massive amounts of tissue during menstruation and pregnancy.

Come for her GORGEOUS images, stay for her incredible discoveries.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
w/ @akelleher1017.bsky.social

The Hilde Mangold Prize of the German Society for Developmental Biology is awarded to Maik Bischoff (@maikbischoff.bsky.social) at #GfE2026 for his research on "Mesenchymal sculpting as a driver of chiral organ development" in Drosophila.

With this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.

First 24 hours of embryonic development in 9 different animal species: (From left to right) Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Black widow spider, Tardigrade, Sea squirt, Comb jelly, Parchment tube worm, Roundworm, Slipper snail. Credit to @tessamontague.bsky.social & Zuzka Vavrušová. #ZebrafishZunday #devbio 🧪

This microscopic freshwater organism, Limnias malicerta, is a rotifer, recognized by its rotating wheel-like structures. It uses spinning cilia on its head to swim and capture tiny food like algae and bacteria.

Original post

A cell videoed through a microscope. DNA in the nucleus (cyan), mitochondria (yellow), and the actin filament cytoskeleton (magenta) are shown. #CellBiology

Congratulations Maik, so well deserved! and such a nice thread!! Looking forward to meet+hear you next week!

Congratulations! 🎉👏
Sadly I’ll miss the meeting, but I hope you have a great celebration. Well deserved! 🎊