Developmental Biology in the Spotlight

The process of developing from a single fertilized egg cell to
a mature adult requires your cells to know exactly what
specialization they will have AND spatially where they need to be
in the developing organism. That's a lot for us to figure out!
PhD student Andrew Montequin uses frogs to study exactly how
these cellular processes occur so that we can better understand
everything from evolution to cancer metastasis. 

If you want to learn more about the topics discussed in this
episode, check out:


Evo-Devo (Despacito Biology Parody) by A Capella Science
(YouTube video)

Biologists Home In on Turing Patterns (news article) 

Why use the frog in research? 

Lab website for the LaBonne Lab at Northwestern University




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