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My TED talk on the superpropulsion of insect pee is out today. 🥳🥳🥳 ted.com/talks/saad_bha…

«Ceci n’est pas un embryon» nor an organoid for the matter This is a close animal relative, the #Ichthyosporean Sphaeroforma arctica. We are thrilled to have our new story out in Current Biology LINK: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Buckle up for a quick🧵 #invertedLUTs Christophe Leterrier

Very excited to share our work on autocatalytic self-assembly of RNA and the formation of catalytic reaction networks within the confines of coacervate compartments. Walter Gilbert meets Kauffman + Dyson meets Oparin + Haldane. nature.com/articles/s4200…

A journey of a lot of collaboration, hard work and microscope time has just been published in Nature! Congrats to these folks, I am incredibly lucky to be a part of this project. Will Ratcliff @ozan_g_b Yunker Lab Ali Dahaj and others I missed. Article: nature.com/articles/s4158…

I’m delighted that our paper on the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment (MuLTEE) has, at long last, been published. This paper establishes the foundations of what I’d like to work on for the rest of my career. 1/25 Free, full access link: rdcu.be/dbPA9

A journey to the origins of multicellular life... Read our Georgia Tech Research writeup of Will Ratcliff 's Multicellularity Long-Term Experimental Evolution here: research.gatech.edu/journey-origin…

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And now with a more accurate title! Also a gift link, so it should not be behind a paywall. nytimes.com/2023/05/10/sci…

I wrote about an incredible experiment in which microscopic, single-celled yeast evolved to become multicellular organisms visible to the naked eye, recreating one of evolution’s most pivotal transitions in a lab, in just one year. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

The yeast went from small microscopic clusters that were 100x weaker than gelatin to blobs the size of fruit flies with the toughness of wood. They’ve started evolving division of labor between their constituent cells, and a kind of circulation. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Wonderful story on the MuLTEE by Ed Yong is not here for the The Atlantic.

Hi folks, we have a new preprint out on the #MuLTEE, examining the molecular basis of multicellular evolution. We found that an ancient protein folding system, Hsp90, can be tuned to drive rapid convergent multicellular evolution. 1/24 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We have a new preprint, showing that living systems can entangle in ways non-living systems can’t. In non-living systems, entanglement only occurs under specific geometric regimes. Not so for growing systems! Given time, most geometries can entangle. doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

#140: Entanglement in living systems Thomas Day Ali Dahaj @ozan_g_b Peter Conlin Yunker Lab Will Ratcliff Unique entanglement, and resulting structural strength, of living systems that grow together, with confirmatory results in snowflake yeast! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Provost Steve McLaughlin and I had a blast this morning with Profs Will Ratcliff Yunker Lab + their students, who are answering truly fascinating questions about how multicellular life came to be, how a clump of individual cells can form an organism. Blown away by their work!

Plus I learned the unrelated yet fascinating fact that the reverse of the one cent coin actually shows the Lincoln statue behind the Lincoln Memorial columns... which you can only see if you have the right optical reflectometer in your lab :) Thx Yunker Lab!

Can we witness evolution’s unit shifting from individual to collective, in real-time? @ozan_g_b Will Ratcliff Yunker Lab evolved large multicellular yeast and said YES! Great fun to spotlight this cool project & its first findings with Or Shalev Skriptchak Ratzke Lab 🦠⇄🦠. Trends in Ecology & Evolution