Growing Eggs

Year: 
2020
Ranking: 
Entrant
Artist: 
Joseph Campanale (Post-Doc)
Department: 
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Description

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.

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