Reproducibility and transparency: what’s going on and how can we help

“…Professor Christine Mummery is a developmental biologist at Leiden University Medical Center and the former President of the International Society of Stem Cell Research. …”
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A reporter assay in lamprey embryos reveals both functional conservation and elaboration of vertebrate enhancers. by Hugo J Parker, Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Marianne Bronner, Greg Elgar

“…As more vertebrate genome sequences are obtained, evolutionary developmental biologists are becoming increasingly able to identify putative gene regulatory elements across the breadth of the vertebrate taxa. …”
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From Biosphere to Semiosphere to Social Lifeworlds. Biology as an Understanding Social Science by Günther Witzany

“…It is increasingly able to provide better answers to these questions than firmly established, traditional, mechanistic biology: (1.) a semiotics that transcends Peirce, James and Morris to serve as a basis for the interpretation of sign processes in biosemiotics (Kull 2005), (2.) developmental biologists, embryologists and epigeneticists who have turned the paradigm “DNA-RNA-Protein-everything else” (Arthur Kornberg) on its head and who try to understand protein bodies as context-dependent interpreters of the genetic text, (3.) a philosophy that reconstructs biology as an understanding social science which describes the rule-governed sign-mediated interactions of cell individuals to mega-populations in their lifeworlds.…”
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Multiphasic allometry: the reality and significance of ontogenetic shifts in the body-mass scaling of metabolic rate by Douglas S. Glazier

“…Traditionally, developmental biologists have largely overlooked how ontogenetic transitions are powered by metabolic energy. …”
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