It may be hard to grasp from outside the benefits of fruit flies as a model organism to study tissue formation and homeostasis.
Check out the below thread from @peiferlabunc.bsky.social to see all the practical and conceptual aspects of why the fly and its research community are at a prime time!
Check out the below thread from @peiferlabunc.bsky.social to see all the practical and conceptual aspects of why the fly and its research community are at a prime time!
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
We learn in school about the distinctive shapes of each of our body’s organs, but how did that arise? Organs self-assemble, as individual cells change shape and move in coordinated ways, sometimes with multiple cell /tissue types shaping one another 1/n 🧪
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