
Growing Eggs
Year:
2020Ranking:
EntrantArtist:
Joseph Campanale (Post-Doc)Department:
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental BiologyLab:
Denise Montell LabDescription
Can a fruit fly teach us about disease? Yes! A powerful organ, the ovary weighs 30% of the female and is a factory of progressively bigger eggs. Cells surrounding each egg are outlined and like the egg, have shaped fundamental understandings for tissue biology that underly disease, including cancer.