🚨 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/new…

Cats: the ultimate pets and scientific heroes. 🐱 Studying feline viruses to identify innovative solutions to prevent human infections. #preprint by @cb99_lewis & colleagues @CVRinfo #microbiology #MolecularBiology #preLight by Orestis Savva: prelights.biologists.com/hig…

My newest #Prelights #article is about #dementia-like #behaviors of the oldest known #rhesusmacaque, which for its unusual #age got even an entry into the #Guinnessbookofrecords. And it's about what we learn about #aging in #primates. #Behavior, #cognition #StefanFWirth 10 June 2026

CXADR – an encouraging new (potential) biomarker for Ewing Sarcoma Members from @Lange_Lab highlight recent work from Alina Ritter & colleagues that presents a powerful example of bench-to-bedside research strategies. #preprint #preLight: prelights.biologists.com/hig…

What can the oldest recorded female rhesus macaque teach us about #ageing? 🐒 This #preprint highlight prepared by @wirthstef discusses dementia-like symptoms and how they shaped her behaviour - and what it means for geriatric animal welfare. #preLight: prelights.biologists.com/hig…

Excited to share the first pre-print from our lab!! Check it out here! biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… We found that many RNA-binding proteins understood to regulate RNA processing can also function like transcription factors and cofactors to directly regulate transcription.

I’m delighted to finally share work from my PhD with @dalygene and @s_mccarroll. We show how human genetics and AlphaFold3-predicted protein structure can be combined to discover new mechanisms underlying missense risk in brain disorders. 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

From #preprint to publication. #preLighter María Mariner studied how ZIC2 shapes early neural development - and brings it to life in a brilliant #spotLights Short! Check it out! youtu.be/V_yMoWMkZCM #SciComm #neuroscience

Voting is now open in our image competition with #ELMI2026. Thanks to everyone that entered the competition, we received so many wonderful entries. Voting closes on 18 June, the penultimate day of #ELMI2026 @PPBioImaging. focalplane.biologists.com/20…

Does ribosome function decline over time? ⏳ The recent #preprint by @JordyBotello & team @brangwynnelab delves right into this question. Scott Murray Cors highlights this work in his first post. #CellBio #genetics #preLight: prelights.biologists.com/hig…

(1/11) Excited to share the brand-new cell division preprint from the lab! In this manuscript, chemical biology (in a collaboration with @rnett42 Ryan’s lab) meets the cell biology (our lab). Harmala alkaloids regulate cell division planes in plants biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

Gut feeling about ageing: intestinal ceramidase Asah2 as a conserved regulator of vertebrate lifespan. Jeny Jose highlights a #preprint that addresses the fascinating question: What controls the rate at which we age? ⌛ Read the #preLight to learn more: prelights.biologists.com/hig…

1 species, 13 phyla, one simple geometric rule that appears to set when every embryo starts speaking through its own genome.🧬 Panagiotis Giannios highlights a recent #preprint from @mirimiam & collaborators #EvolutionaryBiology Check out the #preLight: prelights.biologists.com/hig…

Hello world, meet 1,000× Expansion Microscopy. 1,000,000,000× expansion by volume! A gel that starts at a few centimeters will then expand to the volume of an Olympic swimming pool. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… In our new bioRxiv preprint, work carried out between MIT and UMG, led by Helena Hu in collaboration with scientists from the labs of @eboyden3 Ed Boyden, Silvio Rizzoli, and myself, we present Thousandfold Expansion Microscopy. By enlarging biological specimens across multiple rounds of expansion, molecular-scale features, as small as the distances between adjacent amino acids, can be visualized with conventional optical microscopes. Democratizing super-resolution microscopy.

What if we could control actin polymerization in living systems—precisely in time and scale, on demand? We attempt it in our latest preprint : biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

Gut microbiome changes over the course of multiple sclerosis differentially influence autoimmune neuroinflammation This study from the labs of Maria José Sá and Carles Ubeda highlights how complex diseases like MS require multidisciplinary approaches. prelights.biologists.com/hig…

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/UB2esAf4j…

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/preli…

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/hig…