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Alex Hughes Lab
@hugheslabpenn.bsky.social
Lab-run account @ Penn Bioengineering. Studying development and tissues using micro-scale engineering, chemical biology, and microscopy. alexhugheslab.com
Aria Huang's @azyhuang.bsky.social paper is out on beautiful embryonic kidney 3D cultures that branch properly and enable live defect analysis. She also finds intriguing effects of adhesion and stiffness on explant size, shape, and nephron formation - boundary conditions matter!

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August 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Happy holidays from the Hughes lab ✨ #fluorescencefriday
December 20, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Those at @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2024
conference tomorrow, check out @azyhuang.bsky.social Aria Huang's work on 'truly' 3D, live explant cultures of mouse embryonic kidneys for studying cell dynamics and congenital disease!
December 14, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Those at @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2024
conference tomorrow, check out @lsprahl.bsky.social Louis Prahl's work on optogenetic control of the RET RTK toward engineered branching morphogenesis!
December 14, 2024 at 6:18 PM