Former graduate student Oscar Tarazona and two of his undergraduate mentees (along with Biology graduate alumn Jun Zhang) have a paper in today’s issue of Nature, highlighting the ancient nature of cartilage. The genetic network underlying cartilage production pre-dates the split between Ecdysozoa, Lophotrochozoa, and Deuterostomia: 700 million years of evolution! Read about it here.
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