SDB News Archive

The Backstory: Padmanabhan Babu and the isolation of the e912 mutant (lin-4)
July 30, 2025
By Richard Behringer The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene re...
The Backstory: An interview with Candy Lee on the discovery of microRNAs
July 25, 2025
MicroRNAs are short single-stranded RNAs (21-23 nucleotides long) that can base pair to complementary sequences in messenger RNAs. This is a post-transcriptional mechanism to regulate gene expression...
Joaquin Navajas Acedo makes science social: 2025 SDB Trainee Science Communication Award
June 16, 2025
By Caroline Halmi Joaquin Navajas Acedo has been awarded the 2025 Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) Trainee Science Communication Award . This award recognizes outstanding scientific comm...
The embryo and our peers as the best mentors: How the Research Preparation and Resilience Program sets up students for success in developmental biology
May 7, 2025
By Raisa Bailon-Zambrano Many of us, now passionate about our careers in developmental biology, know the struggle of securing our first lab position. Without this first opportunity, many doors r...
Opportunity, Exploration, and Change in Metamorphosis
May 7, 2025
By Samantha Zinnia Fernandes The new moon perpetuated the darkness, lapping waves broke the silence, and titans of the deep surrounded her. Emma Rangel-Huerta was there to witness a marine marve...
Establishing the sea cucumber as an emerging model in developmental biology
May 7, 2025
By Caroline Halmi Margherita Perillo , a research scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), was awarded the 2024 Society for Developmental Biology Emerging Research Organism Grant ...