(Cell) Size Matters

Did you know our bodies are basically just a bunch of tubes? That's how today's guest sees it anyways. It may seem like a strange idea, but our brains, hearts, and airways are basically all just fancy tubes made up of lots of our cells. Saoirse researches the fly trachea as a model organism for how these tubes develop. Suggested Reading: Short video by Saoirse on her research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU-bMomr9jE&feature=youtu.be Cancer Research UK describing the etiology of cancer: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/how-cancer-starts Academic article about the fly trachea as a model organism: http://dev.biologists.org/content/127/15/3271.long Academic article about size control: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0000086 Follow me: PhDrinking@gmail.com, @PhDrinking, @SadieWit, www.facebook.com/PhDrinking/ Follow Saoirse McSharry: @Taako_Belle Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing