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Nano Injections, Big Discoveries: The Journey to Map Neural and Inner Ear Lineages

Posted by , on 8 May 2025

Co-authored by Sandra de Haan and Jingyan He In our recently published paper ‘Ectoderm barcoding reveals neural and cochlear compartmentalization‘, we utilized ultrasound-guided in utero nano injections to deliver heritable DNA barcodes ...

When did our flexible and lubricated joints evolve?

Posted by , on 30 April 2025

[Behind the paper story of “Synovial joints were present in the common ancestor of jawed fish but lacking in jawless fish”.] Synovial joints are marvels of biological evolution where two ...

Re-growing adult organs: mothers do it best

Posted by , on 30 April 2025

Tomotsune Ameku tells the story behind the paper "Growth of the maternal intestine during reproduction"

Postnatal neurodevelopment: Inside out or the reverse?

Posted by , on 12 March 2025

The people behind the papers – Juan Yang and Xuanmao Chen In mammalian embryos, brains develop from the inside out, with younger neurons moving to the outer layers in a ...

Fish, Frogs, Friends, Lend me your Ears.

Posted by , on 6 March 2025

Humans and other tetrapods evolved from aquatic fish. In making this leap, tetrapods evolved lungs to breathe air and lost respiratory gills. It is tempting to intuit that lungs evolved ...

The Arterial Maze: Unveiling the Origin of Pial Collaterals in Mouse Brain

Posted by , on 19 February 2025

Written by Swarnadip Ghosh & Soumyashree Das Behind the Paper Story of “Development of pial collaterals by extension of pre-existing artery tips” What we do and how we do it? ...

Orphan nuclear receptors: individual and collective roles in mouse development

Posted by , on 10 February 2025

The elusive importance of NR5A2 and ESRRB as pluripotency factors Our paper entitled “Nr5a2 is dispensable for zygotic genome activation but essential for morula development” is the culmination of a ...

Deforming Nuclei: a way to move through the crowd!

Posted by , on 3 February 2025

In their recent paper, Maia-Gil and colleagues explored whether and how nuclear properties can influence nuclear positioning in vivo. Their work revealed that in the densely packed retinal zebrafish neuroepithelium, ...

Divide and conquer. Or don't divide but still conquer.

Posted by , on 25 January 2025

Behind the paper story for “Cell state transitions are decoupled from cell division during early embryo development“ As embryos develop, their cells perform two fundamental tasks: they divide to populate ...

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