Sally Lowell
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The ABC of my fave things in this paper:
* ABOLISHING both silencing AND leakiness of SynNotch (check out the DTA-based demo of this 😍) while preserving high efficiency, in pluripotent & differentiating cells
* BOOSTING signal during #PUFFFIN neighbour-labelling
* CITING Robbie Burns (1786) 🏴
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.22.713470v1
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Favourite talk so far at BSDB2026 was from Cliff Tabin, entitled 'Quack science':
Proper hardcore dev-bio airway-patterning mechanisms... explaining distinct vocalisations in birds!
Estrogen modulates developmental signalling, explaining why male (but not female) ducks can whistle as well as quack.
Left-Right asymmetry during development of airways explains why some songbirds can harmonise with themselves.
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I love the cover of the latest issue of Development @Co_Biologists
As Alex Eve posted over on Bluesky: "the latest cover helps to remind us that Development is not just a faceless brand of a journal eager to line shareholder pockets - it's a group of people who share a love for #devbio and, in my experience, really are trying to do their best for their community."
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Hello, here is a review I wrote about how cells sometimes try to synchronise with surrounding cells so that they can do a good job of building tissues during development. It is called "Keeping up with the neighbours"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-025-00662-8
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#NowPlaying to accompany the ceremonial dragging of a document from my "Papers in revision" folder to my "Lab Publications" folder.
Possibly could have picked something a tad cheerier, but I'm happy even if Roy isn't 😃.
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