Members of our working groups have been busy publishing articles about regeneration and other topics related to our Initiative.

Regeneration books from the McDonnell Initiative

Working groups within the McDonnell Initiative have published multiple books in University of Chicago Press’s Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory series.

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2025

• MacCord, Kate. “Let’s talk about sex…cell lineages.” Biological Theory (2025) https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-024-00488-y
• Maienschein, Jane. “Biostasis: Historical Context,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society  (2025) 166: 90-101.
• Kathryn Maxson Jones. “Squid Game 2: Neuroscience in Wartime Context,” The Royal Society (UK) Blog, February 11, 2025.
• Kathryn Maxson Jones. “Squid Game 1: Excitation in the Archive,” The Royal Society (UK) Blog, February 4, 2025.
• Doolittle, W. Ford. “Darwinizing Gaia: Conceptual approaches”, Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 380, no. 1931 (2025): 20240089. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0089
• Laplane, Lucie, et al. “Applying multilevel selection to understand cancer evolution and progression”. PLOS Biology 23 (2025): e3003290.
• Chin-Yee, B., Laplane, L., and Sujobert, P. “Epistemic limitations of measurable residual disease in haematological malignancies”. The Lancet Haematology 12 (2025): e224–e229. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3026(25)00002-X.
• Lamoureux, A., Elvira-Matelot, E., Porteu, F., and Laplane, L. “Revisiting Clonal Evolution Through the Light of Retrotransposons”. BioEssays 47 (2025): e70078. https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.70078.

2024

• Doolittle, W.Ford. “Science offers the best way of knowing–as long as we don’t confuse what ‘is’ with what ‘ought to be'”, PNAS 121, no. 43 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2416452121
• Inkpen, S. Andrew. “What constitutes the health subject?” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 54 no. 2 (2024): 124-141. doi:10.1017/can.2024.33
• Sudhanvan Iyer, Kathryn Maxson Jones, Jill O. Robinson, Nicole R. Provenza, Dominique Duncan, Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz, Amy L. McGuire, Sameer A. Sheth, and Mary Majumder, “The BRAIN Initiative Data-Sharing Ecosystem: Characteristics, Challenges, Benefits, and Opportunities,”eLife 13 (2024): e94000.
• Laplane, Lucie. “Cancer clones revised.” Biological Theory (2024)  https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-024-00484-2.
• Laplane, Lucie, and Carlo Maley. “The evolutionary theory of cancer: challenges and potential solutions.” Nat Rev Cancer 24 (2024): 718–733. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41568-024-00734-2.
• Papale, François, and W. Ford Doolittle. “Towards a more general theory of evolution by natural selection: A manifesto.” Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology 16, no.1 (2024) https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/article/id/5563/
• Doolittle, W. Ford. Darwinizing Gaia: Natural selection and multispecies community evolution. MIT Press, 2024.
• MacCord, Kate, and Jane Maienschein. “Forwards, not back” Aeon https://aeon.co/essays/regeneration-is-a-better-ideal-for-health-than-restoration 10.October.2024
• MacCord, Kate. “Sex Cells: The History and Assumptions of Germ Cell Science.” Natural History 132 no. 2 (2024): 30-35.
• Maienschein, Jane, and Kate MacCord. “What is Regeneration? By Jane Maienschein and Kate MacCord: Reply by the Authors.” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 104 (2024): 12-13 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.01.002 
• MacCord, Kate, and Jane Maienschein. “Studying Regeneration as a Way of Looking Forward.” Journal of the History of Biology (2024) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-024-09769-5
• MacCord, Kate. How does germline regenerate? University of Chicago Press, 2024.

2023

• Inkpen, SA & D Inkpen, “The Human-Nature Distinction,” Integrative Conservation Clinic (Fall 2023), Alli Sabo (ed.).
• Maienschein, Jane. “The Camouflaged Metaphysics of Embryos,” Issues in Science and Technology April 27, 2023: https://issues.org/metaphysics-embryos-dobbs-abortion-maienschein/
• Paré L, Bideau L, Baduel L, Dalle C, Benchouaia M, Schneider S, Laplane L, Clément Y, Vervoort M & Gazave E (2023). “Transcriptomic landscape of posterior regeneration in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii”. BMC Genomics 24:583
• Pradeu, Thomas, Bertrand Daignan‐Fornier, Andrew Ewald, Pierre‐Luc Germain, Samir Okasha, Anya Plutynski…Lucie Laplane. “Reuniting philosophy and science to advance cancer research.” Biological Reviews 2023 98: 1668-1686.
• Neto, Celso, and W. Ford Doolittle. “A chemostat model for evolution by persistence: Clade selection and its explanatory autonomy.” Philosophy of Science 2023 90: 21-38.
• Maxson Jones, Kathryn, “Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation By Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, University of Chicago Press, 2023,” The FASEB Journal 2023 37(5): e22903
• Rahimzadeh, Vasiliki, Kathryn Maxson Jones, Mary A. Majumder, Michael J. Kahana, Ueli Rutishauser, Ziv M. Williams, Sydney S. Cash, et al. “Benefits of Sharing Neurophysiology Data from the BRAIN Initiative Research Opportunities in Humans Consortium.” Neuron 2023 111, no. 23 (December): 3710–15.
• Imperadore, Pamela, Kathryn Maxson Jones, Jennifer R. Morgan, Fabio de Sio, and Frank W. Stahnisch, “Editorial: Regeneration from cells to limbs: Past, Present, and Future,” Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 2023 11(article 1229613): 1-4.
• Maxson Jones, Kathryn and Jennifer R. Morgan, “Lampreys and spinal cord regeneration: ‘A very special claim on the interest of zoologists,’ 1830s-present,” Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 2023 11(article 1113961): 1-18.
• De Sio, Fabio, and Pamela Imperadore. “Deciphering regeneration through non-model animals: A century of experiments on cephalopod mollusks and an outlook at the future.” Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 2023 10(article 1072382): 1-21.

2022

• Inkpen, SA. “Domestication as Natural Selection?” Metascience, 37: 157-62.
• Inkpen, SA. “Review of Nature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds. Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, and Christian C. Young (eds.).” The Quarterly Review of Biology, 97: 127.
• Maxson Jones, Kathryn. “‘You’ve got to work on this axon’: J.Z. Young and Squid Giant Axon Preparations in 20th-Century Neurobiology,” Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 45 (2022): 317-331.  https://doi.org/10.1002/bewi.202200021.
• Maienschein, Jane, and Melinda Fagan, “Theories of Biological Development,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Fall 2022. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/theories-biological-development/
• Elliott, Steve, MacCord, Kate, and Jane Maienschein, “Help with Data Management for the Novice and Experienced Alike, in Grant Ramsey and Andrea De Block, editors, The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022
• Maienschein, Jane. “Did You Know: That Blood has led the way to Regenerative Medicine?,” The Blood Project, January 2022: https://www.thebloodproject.com/copy-did-you-know-14/
• Maienschein, Jane. “The Page 99 Test: What is Regeneration?,”https://page99test.blogspot.com/2022/10/jane-maienschein-and-kate-maccords-what.html
• Neto C, Doolittle WF. 2022. A chemostat model for evolution by persistence: clade selection and its explanatory autonomy. Philosophy of Science — published online 25 April 2022.
• Doolittle, W.F. (2022) All about levels: Transposable elements as selfish DNAs and drivers of evolution. Biology and Philosophy 37: 24-44.  
• Lean, C.H., Doolittle, W.F. and Bielawski, J.B. (2022). Community-level evolutionary processes: Linking community genetics with replicator-interactor theory. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 119: e2202538119.  
• Inkpen, S. Andrew, and W. Ford Doolittle. Can Microbial Communities Regenerate?. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
• Maienschein, Jane, and Kate MacCord. What Is Regeneration?. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
• Stahnisch, Frank W. “A Century of Brain Regeneration Phenomena and Neuromorphological Research Advances, 1890s–1990s—Examining the Practical Implications of Theory Dynamics in Modern Biomedicine.” Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 9, no. Article 787632 (2022): 1–16.
• Barbara, Jean-Gaël. “The Concept of Tissue Regeneration: Epistemological and Historical Enquiry from Early Ideas on the Regeneration of Bone to the Microscopic Observations of the Regeneration of Peripheral Nerves.” Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 10, no. Article 742764 (2022): 1–17.
• Klein, Sylvia, Victoria Frazier, Timothy Readdean, Emily Lucas, Erica Diaz-Jimenez, Mitch Sogin, S. Emil Ruff, and Karen Echeverri. “Common environmental pollutants negatively affect development and regeneration in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis holobiont.” Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: 884.

2021

• Bideau, L., Kerner, P., Hui, J., Vervoort, M., and Gazave, E. “Animal regeneration in the era of transcriptomics.” Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 2021 78(8): 3941-3956.
• Gillette K., Inkpen S.A., and DesRoches C.T. “Does Environmental Science Crowd Out Non-Epistemic Values?” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Par A 2021 87(June 2021): 81-92.
• Inkpen S.A., and Doolittle W.F. “Adaptive Regeneration Across Scales: Replicators and Interactors from Limbs to Forests.” Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology 2021 13(001).
• Jourdain A., Duchmann M., Willekens C., Solary E., Perié L., and Laplane L., “Evolution clonale: qu’est-ce qu’un clone?” in Loison L. and Pradeu T. (eds.), La biologie au défi de l’histoire. Paper edition, in press.
• Lambert J., Lloret-Fernández C., Laplane L., et al. (2021), “On the origins and conceptual frameworks of natural plasticity—Lessons from single-cell models in C. elegans.” In: Current Topics in Developmental Biology (vol. 144, pp. 111-159).
• Laplane, L. “Stem Cell Conceptual Clarifications,” In Charbord P and Durand C (eds.), Stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, 2nd ed. (River Publishers, Aalborg, accepted).
• Lyne, A-M., Perié L.,* and Laplane, L.,* “To portray clonal evolution in blood cancer, count your stem cells.” Blood 2021 137(14): 1862–1870.
• MacCord K and Maienschein J, “The Historiography of Embryology and Developmental Biology,” in Michael Dietrich, Mark Borello, and Oren Harman, editors, Handbook for the History of Biology (Springer, 2021). Online first: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74456-8_7-1.
• MacCord K and Maienschein J, “Explaining Regeneration: Cells and Limbs as Complex Living Systems, Learning from History,” Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 2021: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2021.734315
• Maxson Jones, K. and Cook-Deegan, Robert M., “An ethos of rapid data sharing, more relevant than ever.” Science 2021 371(6529): 564-569.
• Planques, A., Kerner, P., Ferry, L., Grunau, C., Gazave, E., & Vervoort, M. (2021). “DNA methylation atlas and machinery in the developing and regenerating annelid Platynereis dumerilii.” BMC Biology, 19(1), 148. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01074-5
• Schenkelaars, Q., and Gazave, E. “Annelids, Platynereis dumerilii.” In Handbook of Established and Emerging Marine Organisms in Experimental Biology (CRC Press, forthcoming November 2021), Ch. 13.
• Vervoort, M., and Gazave, E. “Zoological and molecular methods to study Annelida regeneration using Platynereis dumerilii.” In Methods in Molecular Biology, eds. Stephen Stricker and David Carroll (Springer, in press).
• Vullien, A., Röttinger, E., Vervoort, M., and Gazave, E. “A trio of mechanisms involved in regeneration initiation in animals.” Médecine/Sciences [Paris] 2021 37(4): 349-358.

2020

• Inkpen S.A., and DesRoches, C.T. “When Ecology Needs Economics and Economics Needs Ecology: Interdisciplinary Exchange during the Anthropocene.” Ethics, Policy, and Environment 2020 23(2): 203-221.
• Matlin, Karl S., Jane Maienschein, and Rachel A. Ankeny, eds. Why Study Biology by the Sea? Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020.
• MacCord, Kate. “A Dual Mission: Research and Education as Critical Factors for the Scientific Integrity of the Marine Biological Laboratory,” in Why Study Biology by the Sea? (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020), 167-186.
• Maienschein, Jane. “Why Have Biologists Studied at the Seashore? The Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory,” in Why Study Biology by the Sea? (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020), 1-5.
• Matlin, Karl S. “Microscopes and Moving Molecules” The Discovery of Kinesin at the Marine Biological Laboratory,” in  in Why Study Biology by the Sea? (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020), 211-248.
• Maxson Jones, Kathryn. “Francis O. Schmitt: At the Intersection of Neuroscience and Squid,” in Why Study Biology by the Sea? (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020), 187-210.
• Planques, A., Kerner, P., Ferry, L., Grunau, C., Gazave, E., & Vervoort, M. “DNA methylation during development and regeneration of the annelid Platynereis dumerilii.” BioRxiv 2020.11.13.381673.
• Solary, E. and Laplane, L. “The role of host environment in cancer evolution.” Evolutionary Applications 2020 13(7): 1756–1770.

2019

• de Sio, Fabio. “Neurons in context: Neuronal regeneration and disciplinary struggles in the first half of the XX Century.” Program No. 021.09SA. 2019 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience, 2019.
• Gazave, E., and Röttinger E. “7th Euro Evo Devo meeting: Report on the ‘Evolution of regeneration in Metazoa’ Symposium.” Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 2019, online.
• Gibson, Abraham, Manfred Laubichler, and Jane Maienschein, “Computational History and Philosophy of Science,” Isis 2019 110 (3): 497-501.
• Inkpen, S. Andrew. “Philosophy of Biology: Health, ecology and the microbiome,” eLife 2019 8: e47626.
• Inkpen, S.A., and DesRoches, C.T. “Revamping the Image of Science for the Anthropocene.” Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology 2019 11: 1-7.
• Imperadore, Pamela, and Graziano Fiorito. “Tissue regeneration: Cephalopod contribution over more than a century.” Program No. 021.10SA. 2019 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience, 2019.
• Laplane, L. “ANYA PLUTYNSKI, Explaining cancer. Finding order in disorder, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 280pp., £47.99.” Hist. Philos. Life Sci. 2019 41(4): 43.
• Laplane, L., and Duluc, D., Bikfalvi, A., Larmonier, N., Pradeu, T. “Beyond the Tumour Microenvironment.” Int. J. Cancer 2019 144(10): 2611-2618. 
• Laplane, L., and Solary, E. “Towards a classification of stem cells.” eLife 2019 8: e46563.
• Laplane, L., Mantovani, P., Adolphs, R., et al. “Opinion: Why science needs philosophy.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2019 116 (10): 3948–3952.
• Laplane, L., Pradeu, T., and Meneganzin, A. “Scienza e filosofia: una nuova luna di miele?” MicroMega 2019 4: 142–151.
• Laubichler, Manfred, Jürgen Renn, and Jane Maienschein, “Computational History of Knowledge: Challenges and Opportunities,” Isis 2019 110 (3): 502-512.
• MacCord, Kate. “The impacts of assumptions on theories of tooth development and evolution at the turn of the nineteenth century.” Hist. Philos. Life Sci. 2019 41 (12): 1-23.
• MacCord, Kate, and Jane Maienschein. “Philosophy of Biology: Understanding regeneration at different scales,” eLife 2019 8: e46569.
• Maienschein, Jane, “Dead Fetuses are not Remains,” Slate/Future Tense, May 31, 2019.
• Maxson Jones, K.G., and J. R. Morgan. “Experimental organisms, neuron regeneration, and the curious case of the lamprey in the history of the neurosciences, 1960-present.” Presentation No. 021.11SA. 2019 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience, 2019.
• Planques, A., Malem, J., Parapar, J., Vervoort, M., and Gazave, E. “Morphological, cellular and molecular characterization of posterior regeneration in the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii.” Developmental Biology 2019 45 (2): 189-210.
• Wideman, J.G., Inkpen, S.A., Doolittle, W.F., and Redfield, R.J. “Mutationism, not Lamarckism, Captures the Novelty of CRISPR-Cas,” Biology and Philosophy 2019 34: 12.
• DesRoches, C.T., Inkpen, S.A., and Green, T.L. “The Eroding Artificial/Natural Distinction? Some Consequences for Ecology and Economics,” in Michiru Nagatsu and Attilia Ruzzene (eds.), Contemporary Philosophy and Social Science: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.