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🎉 We're excited to share our new research in nature! We reveal that crocodile head scales self-organize through compressive folding of the skin - a mechanical twist on their development & evolution! Please read & share 🐊🔬 Genetics & Evolution Université de Genève nature.com/articles/s4158…

Check out this mesmerizing moment - a crocodile embryo hatching from its egg! 🥚🐊 Our new research in nature reveals how compressive forces, rather than gene interactions, sculpt their intricate head scales - learn more here ⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4158…

Watch our video to learn how compressive forces sculpt the intricate head scales of crocodiles! 🎥🐊 youtu.be/vuvUrAJTg2U?si… And read the full nature article here ⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4158… Rory Cooper Université de Genève Genetics & Evolution

This is the upper jaw of a crocodile embryo, with nuclear staining in orange & proliferating cells in blue. This data helped us to build a mechanical simulation of crocodile head scale patterning. Learn more here ⬇️ The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab nature.com/articles/s4158…

In their ‘Behind the paper’ story, Rory Cooper, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh & Michel C. Milinkovitch The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab share their latest research on the mechanics of crocodile head scale development. 🐊🔬 thenode.biologists.com/the-mechanic...

Here's a model of the crocodile embryo's jaws, showing bone (brown), dermis (pink), epidermis (red), collagen fibres (purple) & multisensory organs (orange). These features are essential for the mechanical patterning of their head scales🐊 Learn more here nature.com/articles/s4158…

Un article publié par Le Monde quant à notre dernière étude sur l'organisation des #écailles de la tête des #crocodiles : lemonde.fr/sciences/artic…

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How the Crocodile Got Its Scales 🐊 —we make the cover of nature ! Our research reveals that the crocodile head scale pattern isn’t genetically-controlled. It’s mechanically self-organized through compressive folding of the skin. 📖 lanevol.org/news/article/h… Université de Genève

🐊 A stunning short movie summarizes our research on how the crocodile got its head scales. The following playlist gives you access to versions in English, Chinese, Japanese, German, French and Spanish youtube.com/playlist?list=… nature Université de Genève

A must read! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… tunable metamaterial microwave absorber inspired by #chameleon’s color-changing mechanism (described in our work: nature.com/articles/ncomm…) Genetics & Evolution Biologie - UNIGE

Check out this baby crocodile emerging from its egg 🥚 🐊 and read our recent article in nature to learn how compressive forces sculpt their intricate head scales nature.com/articles/s4158… The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab Genetics & Evolution

🧐🔬 Les écailles des crocodiles ne sont pas programmées génétiquement, mais émergent sous l'effet de contraintes mécaniques ! Découvrez comment notre étude éclaire ce phénomène fascinant dans Pour la Science 👉 pourlascience.fr/sd/biophysique…

🔬 Conférence | Oncologie de précision : la révolution de l’IA Avec Pr. Olivier Michielin, médecin-chef, Département d’oncologie HUG 📍 INGE, Rue Jean-F. Bartholoni 6, Genève — 1er étage, Les Salons 📅 Lu 24 mars, 18H30 ℹ️ Plus d'infos : inge.ch/evenements/onc…

🦖➡️🕊️ From dinosaur simple proto-feathers to bird intricate feathers? Our latest study shows that feather development is highly resilient to perturbations. 🧐✨ Read more here 👉 lanevol.org/news/article/d… #evolution #feathers #dinosaurs #birds Université de Genève Biologie - UNIGE

Thrilled to share that our light-sheet #microscopy image has been selected as PLOS Biology's Featured Image for March 2025! This visualization captures the role of the sonic #hedgehog pathway in #feather morphogenesis. 🧬 Dive into the details: lanevol.org/news/article/p…

🚨 We make the cover of Open Biology! Boosting sonic hedgehog signalling in chicken embryos flips the script of skin patterning—chemical pre-patterns give way to mechanical folding. 🧬 From Turing to tissue mechanics. 🧪 ➡️ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Université de Genève Royal Society Publishing

Can Turing and Ising models explain lizard skin patterns—and be reconciled? 🦎📐 We bridge microscopic cell interactions & macroscopic scale patterns across evolutionary divergent lizards. 👉 lanevol.org/news/article/m… #EvoDevo #TuringPatterns #IsingModel #MathematicalBiology