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Cover article – Three-dimensional analysis of single molecule FISH in human colon organoids
Madelon Maurice and her colleagues present a sensitive single-molecule FISH application for the identification of individual mRNA transcripts and their spatial distribution in 3D in whole human colon organoids.
Featured article – The ventral epithelium of Trichoplax adhaerens deploys in distinct patterns cells that secrete digestive enzymes, mucus or diverse neuropeptides
Carolyn Smith, Tatiana Mayorova and their co-workers show that the external digestive epithelium of the primitive animal Trichoplax adhaerens includes secretory cell types and secretory products much like those in the internal digestive systems of other animals.
Have you seen our interviews with the early-career first authors of our papers? Recently, we caught up with first authors Vishwanath Varma, Toru Miwa, Ivana María Gómez and Maia Abigail Rodríguez, and Yong Wang.
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Recent developmental biology highlights in BiO – Anna Nele Herdina and her colleagues define the spectrum of phenotypic abnormalities linked with Col4a2 disruption and demonstrate the opportunities the Deciphering the Mechanisms of Developmental Disorders (DMDD) program offers for exploring rare human diseases.
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preLights - Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote-eukaryote interface
Gautam Dey highlights a preprint from Hiroyuki Imachi, Masaru Nobu and colleagues, who are the first to charactarise a species of the “Asgard archaea”, an archaeal lineage that may have been the precursor of eukaryotes!