A method to produce embryonic stem cells for a range of bird species opens up opportunities in agriculture, developmental biology and species conservation #NBTNV go.nature.com/4ntGnih rdcu.be/eJagy

Wonderful collaboration of Claire Arata and co-first-author Elena Vasileva from Amatruda lab. Claire provided the neural crest driver and Elena the EWS oncofusion. Best combination since PB&J. Amazing that expression of a single oncofusion in crest produces ectopic fins. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Beautiful atlas of fish gill development from the Lecaudey lab. There are few structures more amazing in biology than gills! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wonderful to have my second ever grad student stop by the lab today. Elizabeth Zuniga. She is now faculty working on eye development at Baylor College of Medicine. Such joy to see your former trainees doing so well.

New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wonderful backstory of this gem by @mathithiru.bsky.social & @crumplab.bsky.social from earlier this year... 🔗 to original research: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔗 to the Node article: thenode.biologists.com/fish-frogs-f...

Worthy event to support the engine of innovation in our country.

When did the lubricated joints that allow our skeleton to swivel, rotate and bend evolve? @crumplab.bsky.social explores a new @plosbiology.org paper by @neelimasharma.bsky.social &co that pinpoints their origin to the earliest jawed vertebrates 🧪 Paper: plos.io/3CTC8La Primer: plos.io/4kkhXa6

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Not only does Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in known proteins, the asteroid’s amino acids hold a surprise https://go.nature.com/4hDJnFM

The amazing Ted Tseng

Nice article in Scientific American about our work on outer ear evolution and a complimentary study from the lab of Maksim Plikus on role of unique lipids in mammalian ear cartilage. www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-...

The outer ear is a mammalian innovation but where did it come from? In our study in Nature, Mathi Thiruppathy and colleagues find that the outer ear arose from modification of an ancestral gill program first originating in marine invertebrates. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n

📢🧪For your holiday travel reading, check out our new pre-print! Using a new joint resection injury model, we describe an innate regeneration program in adult #zebrafish that reestablishes all major synovial joint cell types, including lubricated articular cartilage. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How can some vertebrates naturally recover from deafness? In work in PNAS, Tuo Shi finds that enhancers for sensory genes remain open but silent in sister cells of zebrafish and lizards, allowing these to make new inner ear sensory hair cells upon damage. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

NPR's Short Wave features @USCStemCell PhD student Tuo Shi from the @CrumpLab, & Gnedeva and Lozito Labs, talking about his new paper in @PNASnews and how some animals can restore their hearing naturally, even though other animals like us cannot. @NPR @KECKSchool_USC www.npr.org/2024/12/12/n...

Congratulations to newly minted PhD Tuo Shi. Some exciting news from Tuo is imminent. Stay tuned!

Our lab manager Meg is quite the singer