Humans are able to live in so many different climates, in a wide range of temperatures and yet our inner core body temperature remains nearly constant. This ability to thermoregulate has something to do, of course, with clothing and the ability to cool and heat our living spaces, but our bodies also offer many adaptations … Continue reading Throw another adipocyte on the fire
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I’m back from an intense semester of learning and teaching Developmental Biology. One theme that emerged from my studies was that the development of organisms is centered around gene expression and cell to cell signaling. Often times, one cell will differentiate into its mature form, and then release a signaling protein that tells neighboring cells … Continue reading Go go gadget extendo filopodia
There’s more than one way to get out of a nucleus
This week’s paper totally blew my mind. It’s so amazing to me that we know so much about how cells work and yet this paper describes a totally new process that has never been observed before. How’s that possible? What else remains to be discovered?In this week’s issue of Cell, Speese et al. describe a … Continue reading There’s more than one way to get out of a nucleus
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