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Proteolytic cleavage of the extracellular matrix glycoprotein fibrillin-2 by the secreted metalloprotease ADAMTS6 influences skeletal development by modulating fibrillin microfibril abundance and GDF5/BMP signaling, illustrating the crucial role of extracellular matrix proteostatic mechanisms in growth factor regulation during morphogenesis.

In addition to a neural crest cell specific role, AP-2α and AP-2ß cooperatively promote craniofacial development through regulating chromatin and gene expression dynamics in the facial surface ectoderm.

Spatio-temporal analysis using live imaging in zebrafish reveals mural cells as a source of pro-lymphangiogenic factors including chemokine and growth factor signalling, necessary for robust lymphatic endothelial cell migration and survival.

A cellular and biophysical study on embryonic stem cell aggregates reveals that the endoderm can form by a three-step mechanism involving a Wnt/beta-catenin-mediated epiblast fragmentation, tissue flow and cell segregation.

An integrated framework for in vivo base edting allows to scalably validate candidate genes and DNA variants.

In a model of human neurulation (neuruloids), YAP is deferentially regulated across ecotodermal lineages, where it contributes to their differentiation and structural organization, and is hyper-active upon HD mutation, contributing to an HD-signature phenotype.

Combined lineage-tracing strategies, single-cell transcriptomic methods and in situ analyses identified mesodermal bipotent progenitors during craniofacial myogenesis that give rise to myogenic and connective tissues, thus redefining the lineage and evolutionary relationships between muscle and associated stroma.

Tissue-level cell tracking and analysis of actomyosin and N-cadherin adhesion dynamics, coupled with disruption of the regulatory gene Shroom3, reveals region-specific cell behaviors along the anteroposterior axis during neural tube closure.

A comprehensive analysis of mutant animal model shows the important role of KDM6B and how it cooperates with TFDP1 to achieve its functional specificity in regulating Trp53 expression to control the fate of cranial neural crest cells during palatogenesis.

Proline is essential for osteoblast differentiation and bone formation by facilitating the production of proline-enriched osteoblast proteins.