📢New #BehindthePaper story on the Node

Tirtha Das Banerjee and Antόnia Monteiro tell the story behind their paper exploring the expression and function of Wnt signaling pathway members in setting up butterfly wing patterns 🦋

https://thenode.biologists.com/patterning-the-butterfly-wing-through-wnt-signaling/research/

The **Behind the paper** series at the #PLOSBiologue blog at #plosbiology @PLOSBiology is always inspiring and interesting. The newest is about findings in extramedullary hematopoiesis in tumors and tells about how Derek Barisas (MD/PhD student at WashU School of Medicine) nurtured the project through the pandemic—the lab shut down 3 months after he started.

https://biologue.plos.org/2023/07/05/tumors-produce-factors-that-promote-extramedullary-hematopoiesis/

Paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001746

#cancerbiology
#behindthepaper
#scienceblogging

1/2

Living up to your cnidarian potential

Read this #BehindthePaper story by Aine Varley from Uri Frank's lab, detailing the trials and tribulations of developing a technique to transplant a single i-cell in #Hydractinia, and the search for pluripotency of these #stemcells:

https://thenode.biologists.com/living-up-to-your-cnidarian-potential/research/

How to turn scales into feathers (Hint: Shh)

Have you read this new #BehindthePaper story on the Node?

Rory Cooper from the Milinkovitch-Tzika lab tells us about how the project started, and the moment they saw the first feather-footed hatchling chickens:

https://t.co/XcQZEsczmN

We got invited to write a blog article for 'Behind the Paper' about our latest research! 📝🔬 We break down our paper in a more accessible way and share insights into the research process.
Excited to share our work with a wider audience!
👉 Check it out: https://tinyurl.com/qnsscience

You want to read the full paper?👨‍💻 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41534-023-00716-6

#sciencecommunication #research #behindthepaper

RARE peek into Hoxb transcriptional regulation

New Research Highlight showcasing work from
Zainab Afzal, Robb Krumlauf and colleagues at Stowers Institute for Medical Research:

https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/150/10/e150_e1002/310728/RARE-peek-into-Hoxb-transcriptional-regulation

Read the #OpenAccess Research Article 'Shared retinoic acid responsive enhancers coordinately regulate nascent transcription of Hoxb coding and non-coding RNAs in the developing mouse neural tube':

https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/150/10/dev201259/310725/Shared-retinoic-acid-responsive-enhancers

And 'the people #behindthepaper' interview:

https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/150/10/dev201966/310724/The-people-behind-the-papers-Zainab-Afzal-and-Robb

Really great @the_node #behindthepaper post summarising the recent discovery that epidermal cells can be co-opted to enable touch sensing. Nice work from the Tapon lab.

I enjoyed the behind-the-scenes peek into the "eureka" moment when Federica Mangione suddenly realised how 4 cells became 5 cells in the absence of any cell division...

#PaperThemeTune is of course "Touch Sensitive" by The Fall. Hey hey hey hey!

https://thenode.biologists.com/behind-the-paper-the-discovery-of-a-novel-cell-type-involved-the-fly-touch-sensing/research/

What do you do when you observe a previously uncharacterised cell type during live imaging of the fruit fly epidermis? 🔬

Read this #behindthepaper story from Federica Mangione from the Tapon lab at the Francis Crick Institute on discovering a new cell type involved in fly touch sensing⤵
https://thenode.biologists.com/behind-the-paper-the-discovery-of-a-novel-cell-type-involved-the-fly-touch-sensing/research/

Haemorrhages in foetal brain tissue🧠associated with the presence of SARS-CoV-2: How SARS-CoV-2 impacted our PhD bringing new and important findings Marco Massimo, Carlotta Barelli from the lab of Katie Long tell their unexpected #behindthepaper story ⤵

https://thenode.biologists.com/haemorrhages-in-foetal-brain-tissue-associated-with-the-presence-of-sars-cov-2-how-sars-cov-2-impacted-our-phd-bringing-new-and-important-findings/research/

Issue 8 is now complete!

On the cover: a transverse section through the hindbrain level of an E2 chick embryo immunostained for laminin (red) and SOX10 (green). More details in Halasy et al.
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/150/8/dev201289/307118/CXCR4-and-CXCL12-signaling-regulates-the

Also in Issue 8:
▪ Four Research Highlights on Hippo, CXCL12, cilia and oligodendrocytes
▪ Editorial about @the_node
▪ Two #Behindthepaper interviews
▪ 'In preprints' on cell interface surveillance
▪ Review on macrophage-stem cell crosstalk

https://journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/150/8

Oligodendrocytes stop regenerating axons reaching their full potential

A new Research Highlight showcasing work from
Jian Xing, Agnieszka Lukomska,
Bruce A. Rheaume, Ephraim F. Trakhtenberg and colleagues from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.

https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/150/8/e150_e0804/307395/Oligodendrocytes-stop-regenerating-axons-reaching

Read the full #OpenAccess #StemCells and Regeneration Research Article: https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/150/8/dev201311/307315/Post-injury-born-oligodendrocytes-incorporate-into

The #behindthepaper interview with the authors:
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/150/8/dev201870/307314/The-people-behind-the-papers-Jian-Xing-Agnieszka

TWISTED, the birth of a new gene

New #behindthepaper story written by Nayelli Marsch Martinez, describing their work on discovering a potential new gene in #Arabidopsis that causes twisted growth😮

https://thenode.biologists.com/behind-the-paper-story-twisted-the-birth-of-a-new-gene/lablife/

📢New on the Node: Uncovering non-canonical functions of the Hippo pathway

Check out the #behindthepaper story by Heya Zhao revealing the role of Hippo pathway in cell fate decisions of the #drosophila eye:

https://thenode.biologists.com/behind-the-paper-story-uncovering-non-canonical-functions-of-the-hippo-pathway-%ef%bf%bc/research/

#devbio

Check out our new #BehindThePaper blog post from @PEARG_Lab discussing their new #PLOSBiology paper on male-killing symbiotic bacteria in flies
Paper: https://plos.io/3TEicQe
Primer: https://plos.io/3ziNMtx
https://biologue.plos.org/2023/04/05/a-bacteria-strain-that-kills-males/

Check out our new #BehindThePaper blog post from @PEARG_Lab discussing their new #PLOSBiology paper on male-killing symbiotic bacteria in flies
Paper: https://plos.io/3TEicQe
Primer: https://plos.io/3ziNMtx
https://biologue.plos.org/2023/04/05/a-bacteria-strain-that-kills-males/

New #BehindThePaper blog post!
@annasimsbiol discusses her new paper on superinfection exclusion in influenza virus https://plos.io/3HXscie and working in a #virology lab during a pandemic
#PLOSBiology #academiclife #AcademicChatter
https://biologue.plos.org/2023/03/22/human-collaboration-to-study-virus-interactions/

RT @martiskainen
We have a new paper out in @NatureEnergyJnl from @CREDS_UK work on fuel & transport poverty.

Related blog: Exploring the drivers, lived experiences, and solutions to energy and transport poverty https://earthenvironmentcommunity.nature.com/posts/exploring-the-drivers-lived-experiences-and-solutions-to-energy-and-transport-poverty #BehindThePaper

RT @PhysOfLifeLMU
Directing Min protein patterns with advective bulk flow https://physicscommunity.nature.com/posts/directing-min-protein-patterns-with-advective-bulk-flow #BehindThePaper

RT @DOME_Vienna@twitter.com

Gene gain in intracellular bacteria or how Chlamydiae defy the odds https://microbiologycommunity.nature.com/posts/gene-gain-in-intracellular-bacteria-or-how-chlamydiae-defy-the-odds #behindthepaper

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DOME_Vienna/status/1612817020780789761

RT @erleellis
Loving Rainforests Too Much?
Zero-Deforestation Targets May Endanger other Endangered Biomes @NatureEcoEvo https://ecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/rainforest-zero-deforestation-commitments-could-unintentionally-encourage-oil-palm-expansion-in-tropical-grassy-biomes-and-dry-forests #behindthepaper