December 2012: From Synthetic Biology to Evolution of Limbs
Dec 20, 2012•17 min
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Episode description
In this month's Cell Podcast, we learn how designer techniques from synthetic biology are influencing the field of cell biology, with Wendell A. Lim and Wallace F. Marshall (0:00) (Trends in Cell Biology), how changes in specific genes triggered the evolution from fish fins to the limbs of vertebrates, with José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta and Fernando Casares (6:41) (Developmental Cell). Plus, sample a selection of the hottest new papers from Cell Press (13:42).
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