Happy #CtenophoreDay (10-04) for those in Europe, UK, Australia & others that use DD-MM-YYYY format! This bi-annual event celebrates these squishy globs of goodness 🤩 Go ahead: share your favorite #ctenophore images and videos using the hashtag #CtenophoreDay! Credit video to @oceana.bsky.social.

My cover story for this week's New Scientist: research isuncovering a vast array of languages that our body's organs and tissues use to function together as a great er whole. And how tapping in to it could transform medicine and ageing (article link in next post)

The liver has a surprising rival for the title of most regenerative organ: the lung. It has a remarkable capacity to rebuild itself, with its specialised cell types moonlighting as stem cells. Could this be harnessed to help reverse disease? My latest for @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm Claire, a freelance science journalist with a background in developmental biology. I write about biology and biomedicine, with a particular interest devbio, evodevo, systems biology, mechanobiology, ageing and more. Here are some of my favourite stories: