We have a new paper out today from superstar Nora Herzog!
A virus that fluidizes the nucleus to enable replication!
Check it out here:
lnkd.in/e-xV8acK
This was an amazing collaboration with Ian Mohr and Angus Wilson
Had an absolutley brilliant time at #KSEmbryology26 a few weeks ago and was really inspired by all the great talks and posters there 🤩 Here's a list of the #preprints I noticed from presenters 👇 - check it out and please let me know if I've missed any!
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/key...
Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating).
A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)
Our newest work on quantification and statistical testing of scoliosis severity using microCT and R. www.cell.com/star-protoco... Thanks to @eceatayeter.bsky.social @brittneyvoigt
Nice review from Kate Adamala of Adrian Woolfson's new book On The Future of Species.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Our internal organs are evolutionary marvels. New technologies are transforming our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate organs. You can find more by reading here:
rdcu.be/e5EgU
#EvoBio #EvoDevo 🐟🦎🐢🦇🐊🦜
Our most recent work on the “function and evolution” of #nuclear-speckles is now online at Cell @cp-cell.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
Read the thread👇 for the highlights of our findings.
From our new paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... w/ @neurofishh.bsky.social @gkafetzis.bsky.social @denilsson.bsky.social
Looking across animals, the vertebrate eye is an obvious outlier. Why is it so different that other highly visual animals?
Excited to share our new review in @dev-journal.bsky.social on tissue phase transitions during development!
@karengrace12.bsky.social @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Looking forward to @keystonesymposia.bsky.social, @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social and @jun-wu-lab.bsky.social's #KSEmbryology26 meeting starting this evening? Feel free to come say hi and grab a poster for your lab/office
The heartbeat and other bodily processes play a surprising role in shaping perception and cognition. (From the archive) www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-hea...
Here is a robust biochemical & functional difference between young and old mammalian cells:
- The fraction of new amino acids incorporated into proteins.
The difference is consistent, quantitative, cell-type specific, and deeply intriguing.
What aging mechanisms cause it ?
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Feb 11 is International Day of Women and Girls in Science and at RIKEN BDR, we celebrate the achievements of #womeninscience by holding an IDWGIS Symposium. We also recently launched Mirai Alliance, a mentorship network for women researchers in life sciences. www.bdr.riken.jp/en/news/bdr-...
Happy to announce that our latest paper is now out! Have you ever wondered how neural tissues control their size? In this paper, we show that cell division orientation is critical in both the cortex and retina. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
⚡👩🔬Electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth, a new study!
Out now in Science Advances, from the Mateus group @ritamateus.bsky.social at PoL and @mpi-cbg.de along with the lab of Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social
Read the news here: tud.link/7jzptz
Video:©️ Mateus group
an insect, a bird, and an elephant visualized with unit height scaling. insect is landscape shaped and the elephant is portrait shaped
Why is it that small animals like insects have a landspace body plan when viewed head-on, but larger animals like elephants are taller than wide?
With @m-v.bsky.social, we find out in our new preprint titled 'Size and shape of terrestrial animals' - arxiv.org/html/2602.00...
Our paper on the evolution of XIST regulatory network in primates is now published in Science Advances! Check out the paper www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... or a digest of our findings emmanuelczt.github.io/posts/2026/0... A short 🧵 of our main findings 👇
AlphaGenome is out in @nature.com today along with model weights! 🧬
📄 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💻 Weights: github.com/google-deepm...
Getting here wasn’t a straight path. We discussed the story behind the model, paper & API in the following roundtable: youtu.be/V8lhUqKqzUc
Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
Excited to finally share the final/final.doc version of our paper. It's been a journey, but very proud of the result. Well done to all involved, especially @elsieplace.bsky.social
@kchinnaiya.bsky.social , @thomasdwkim.bsky.social, @sethblackshaw.bsky.social 👏👏
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(1/2) Our work with @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social on the chirality of malaria parasites has found its home in the January issue of @natphys.nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Moreover, we are very happy that it comes with a news and views article 👍❤️😀
Researchers have engineered magnetically controlled fluorescent proteins that can be remotely dimmed and brightened in cells and living animals
go.nature.com/3NUSY12
New paper presenting rather compelling evidence that the stem-vertebrate Haikouichthys had paired lateral and supranumerary medial eyes (!!!), and proposing that the medial eyes may have deep homology with the pineal and parapineal organs.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
True! The tree was slightly tilted, so probably there was a sun shade
A loving family of tiny bats in Panama 🦇🦇🦇
Likely resting on a tree trunk due to the lack of nearby caves.
Fascinating how they remain upside down even while clinging on.
@marineluciano.bsky.social recreates intestinal Villi geometry by growing epithelial cells on wavy rolling substrates. Unexpected intrication of curvature effects is observed. Thanks to all! @caterinatomba.bsky.social @sgabriele.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
More than 400 million years ago, during the Silurian Period, an evolutionary event led to the later emergence of spiders’ spinnerets—the abdominal organs that make silk—according to new #ScienceAdvances research. https://scim.ag/4sFX3pJ
Nice summary on our paper on mechanisms controlling development and evolution of the cone-dominant ground squirrel retina, which is now in final form at eLife.
www.lifescienceeditors.com/2026/01/06/h...
Now out in PLOS Biology- a novel clock mechanism regulating spawining in a newly-identified Clytia species
: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
