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The story of my heart, from the bottom of my heart (says the Zebrafish)

An evolutionary fable: the black pencil and the rubber.

August in preprints

About: PRAGYA SIDHWANI

Biography:
I did my Ph.D. in zebrafish heart development with Dr. Debbie Yelon at the University of California, San Diego. For my postdoctoral research, I switched fields to work on centromere biology with Dr. Aaron Straight at Stanford. I love patterns-- in art, in words and in biology-- and with this switch, I want to zoom in on tissue-level patterns, to study patterns in repetitive DNA sequences.
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The story of my heart, from the bottom of my heart (says the Zebrafish)

Posted by on June 23rd, 2020

I started off as quite little—just one cell, in fact. No heart, no brain, no blood flowed in me and yet, somehow I found the motivation in me to divide. One me made two and two mes made four, till many tiny mes made me a full-fledged embryo with a heart full of hope. As[…]

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