Developmental Cell, launched in 2001, is a broad-interest journal covering the areas of cell biology and developmental biology. In addition to publishing work spanning all areas of cell biology and developmental biology, we have particular interest in how these fields interface with each other and with other disciplines in biology. The journal aims to showcase work that examines, through a cell biological lens, the fundamentals of how a cell works, how cells interact with one another and with the environment, how cells come together to form a tissue, organ, and ultimately a whole organism, and what happens when any of these processes go awry.  
Our PhD-trained scientific editors work with authors, reviewers, and editorial board members to publish 24 issues each year, filled with exciting research describing results of unusual significance. We also publish review and perspective articles tailored to the journal’s broad readership. With this wide coverage, Developmental Cell is a unique cross-disciplinary resource for researchers in cell biology and developmental biology and for the general scientific community.
Developmental Cell will consider papers in any area of cell biology or developmental biology, as well as at the interface either of these fields make to any other areas in biology. Examples of these include signaling, cell proliferation, polarity, cell migration, cell lineage and fate specification, chromatin regulation and function, cancer cell biology, evo-devo, disease etiology, membrane traffic, metabolic regulation, morphogenesis and biomechanics, organ development, ncRNAs, stem cell biology, and regeneration. We are also interested in studies building on large datasets or developing new tools that could be good fits for our Resource or Technology formats. The primary criterion for publication in Developmental Cell, as for all Cell Press journals, is new biological insight. We are happy to consider any study that leads to important new conclusions about biological function.  
Access to all articles published in Developmental Cell is free from 12 months after publication.
Uncertain about whether your paper would be a good fit? Send us a presubmission inquiry!

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Ralf Adams
Geneviève Almouzni
Steven Altschuler
Angelika Amon
David Bartel
Yohanns Bellaïche
William Bement
Philip Benfey
Malcolm Bennett
Dominique Bergmann
Christer Betsholtz
Juan Bonifacino
Bruce Bowerman
Joan Brugge
Iain Cheeseman
Christopher Chen
Enrico Coen
Gaudenz Danuser
Mary Dasso
Pietro De Camilli
Ivan Dikic
Robert Duronio
Andrew Ewald
Paul Frenette
Elaine Fuchs
Holger Gerhardt
Darren Gilmour
Bob Goldstein
François Guillemot
Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis
Hiroshi Hamada
Richard Harland
Kieran Harvey
Richard Harvey
Rebecca Heald
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg 
Kristian Helin
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Anthony Hyman
Phil Ingham
Luisa Iruela-Arispe
Peter K. Jackson
Yuh Nung Jan
Tarun Kapoor
David Kimelman
Raphael Kopan
Helmut Krämer
Maria Leptin
Ottoline Leyser
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Laura Machesky
Harmit Malik
Doug Melton
Sarah Millar
Edward Morrisey
Samantha Morris
Edwin Munro 
Eric Olson
David Pellman
Norbert Perrimon
Matthias Peter
Ana Pombo
Ken Poss
Will Prinz
Anne Ridley
Janet Rossant
Erik Sahai
Mitinori Saitou
Alexander Schier
Trina Schroer
Geraldine Seydoux
Liliana Solnica-Krezel
Harald Stenmark
Cliff Tabin
Masatoshi Takeichi
Patrick Tam
Elly Tanaka
Nan Tang
Stephen J. Tapscott
Sarah Teichmann
Sally Temple
Ulrich Tepass
Bill Theurkauf
Carl Thummel
Tadashi Uemura
Matthew Vander Heiden
John Wallingford
Michael Way
Valerie Weaver
Zena Werb
Lani Wu
Joanna Wysocka
Alpha Yap
Kenneth Zaret