How did skates evolve their characteristics wing-like fins?🧚 Find clues in our last paper nature A great team effort w Juan Tena Rafael Domínguez Acemel Ferdinand Marlétaz Tetsuya Nakamura Christina Paliou Elisa de la Calle Dan Rokhsar Part of the rich legacy of the late Jose Luis Gomez Skar nature.com/articles/s4158…

The final version of our article is available We report a novel role for microRNAs in sex determination. A nice collaboration with Barrionuevo and Jimenez lab, and led by Alicia Hurtado Irene Mota Miguel Lao 👏👏 Max Delbrück Center MDC-BIMSB Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo nature.com/articles/s4146…

🧬Identifican un grupo de pequeñas moléculas necesarias para la determinación del sexo en mamíferos. Investigadores del Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo y la Universidad Granada demuestran por primera vez el papel determinante que juegan los microARNs en este proceso. 👉bit.ly/3RwhhkX

My thoughts on a landmark paper from Alicia Hurtado @dariloops.bsky.social et al. A brilliant contribution to the field of #sexdetermination opening up many more avenues of research ahead👏 The Scientist 👇 Deleting a MicroRNA Cluster Reversed Biological Sex in Mice the-scientist.com/deleting-a-mic…

Magnificent stripy eye work from Alicia Hurtado and colleagues showing everyone's second favourite gene, Sox9, is needed in the stem cells that maintain the corneal surface. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… preLights the Node

PhD position available in my lab - Fully funded! Please, apply or RT! 👩‍🔬🐭🧫

Ever wondered how bats develop wings from their hands? 🦇✨ Check out our new preprint and the thread below! 🤓 👏Big applause to our amazing first authors @M_Schindler_ and Christian Feregrino and thanks to all our co-authors for their help! 🥂 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…