In the spirit 👻 of Freaky Friday 🎃, here is a beautiful yet eery video of zebrafish retina development showing horizontal cells (🔵) finding their way out of the crowded amacrine (🟠) layer to settle beneath the photoreceptors. Happy #Halloween!
🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social

Deconstructing DNA Beyond the Helix An artist’s experimental approach to Rosalind Franklin’s Photo 51 reveals the molecule’s intricate biochemistry.

In 1952, British chemist Rosalind Franklin bombarded crystallized DNA with x-rays and recorded how the rays diffracted through the sample. The result was Photo 51, one of the most astonishing and iconic images in science.

Good luck, Hannah! It was a pleasure meeting you :)

Fresh off the press, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Work by: Simon Hadjaje, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément

A Star Protocols graphical abstract of the steps for the preparation, clearing and visualization of adult zebrafish spinal cords, together with alternative uses for these samples (e.g. cryosectioning and immunohistochemistry of reverted sectioned samples).

The first work of my PhD is OUT 🎆
star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/38...

In this work, we share with the community our protocol for preparation, clearing and visualization of adult 🦓🐟 spinal cords structures that has been tested, refined and used quite frequently in our lab.

In Praise of Peer Review As an Editor of the journal Development, I often hear complaints about peer review. We all know the problems – from lengthy review times to requests for seemingly unnecessary experiments. I a…

I wrote some thoughts about why peer review matters

It shapes scientific standards, maintains field coherence & trains new researchers

Yes, it needs improvement—but it's the glue that holds scientific progress together

briscoelab.org/2024/12/11/i...