Nature's "blue" isn't pigment — it's physics.

At the #Stowers25 Symposium,
@mblscience.bsky.social Director Nipam Patel showed how butterflies use nanostructured scales to refract light into brilliant colors. 🦋🌈

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Congratulations to @eudaldpascual.bsky.social and @ktgarschall.bsky.social from the @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social lab on a new paper out in @plosbiology.org 🤩👏 The work, supported by @embo.org, looked at cell behavior during starvation in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis 🧵🧪

🚨Excited to kick off our online seminar series on Metabolism in Development and Physiology!

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Hi people, wondering what sets the size of an organ? Is it pre-determined during development? How does the size remain constant post-repair? #developmentalbiology #organsize #repair #stemcells

Our 'Honest conversations' series is a place for people to write about the ups and downs in their academic journey and create frank conversations around less-discussed topics.

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