Development

dev-journal.bsky.social

20 October 2026 05:51

Three weeks left to submit your research to our special issue, Plant and Algae Development. Edited by @stanfordstomata.bsky.social and Susana Coelho, we welcome submissions studying plant and algal reproduction, including seed development. Deadline: 2 November 2026. tinyurl.com/ykvs896x

Mel Eckersley-Maslin

meleckmas.bsky.social

20 October 2026 05:50

Had a great time last week at the #CancerEpigenetics meeting in Paris where I had the opportunity to share our latest work on bivalent chromatin dynamics in cancer. Thanks Pierre-Antoine Defossez for organising and ensuring the conference success despite all the protests!

Development

dev-journal.bsky.social

20 October 2026 05:49

Attending the 16th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society for Stem Cell Research in Wuhan, China, from 23–25 October 2026? Reviews Editor @saanjbati.bsky.social will be presenting at the 'Meet the Editors' session during the meeting. Do chat with Saanjbati about your next Development paper.

Mel Eckersley-Maslin

meleckmas.bsky.social

17 October 2026 12:10

I agree, we should be careful not to over generalise the implications of expressing embryonic transcriptional programs in cancers, as it’s very context dependent

Mel Eckersley-Maslin

meleckmas.bsky.social

17 October 2026 07:18

We often say cancers reactivate embryonic programs, but how often does this happen? and is it always bad? In this study, we develop EmbryoRadar to detect widespread expression of preimplantation transcriptional programs across all cancers, with varied patient outcomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...