Scientists discover how starfish get 'legless' | ScienceDaily sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/…

Investigadores de la Universidad Queen Mary de Londres identificaron una neurohormona responsable de desencadenar autoamputación en la estrella de mar - EFE efe.com/medio-ambiente…

La Jornada: Descubren cómo las estrellas de mar se desprenden de sus brazos jornada.com.mx/2024/08/31/cie…

Feliz de ver que nuestro artículo publicado en ⁦Current Biology ha llegado a la emisora de radio que muchas veces escucho mientras voy al trabajo. Aquí el link al trabajo cell.com/current-biolog… ⁩ – KISS FM kissfm.es/2024/08/29/las…

The identification of a neuropeptide that promotes autotomy in starfish by Prof Maurice Elphick , our colleague Dr Ana B Tinoco 🇺🇦 and colleagues at QMUL was published on 29th August in Current Biology

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Our preprint "Non-synaptic encoding of behavior by neuropeptides" is posted in ZENODO zenodo.org/records/136917… Jékely Lab @[email protected]

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Scientists discover how starfish easily amputate their own legs studyfinds.org/how-starfish-a…

1 week old Ciona juvenile with a beating heart🫀and everything - amazing! 🤩🤩 Chatzigeorgiou lab

So that's it, first PhD finishing in the lab! Kudos to Luke Sarre for his viva defence, and thanks again to Tobias Warnecke and Richard Nichols for testing his knowledge!

Arm ab, Gefahr gebannt: Der spannende Abwehrmechanismus von Seesternen nationalgeographic.de/wissenschaft/2… via @natgeo

I'm both proud and pleased to see that, less than two weeks after the autotomy promoting factor paper was published in current biology, National Geographic has picked up on the story and its attention score is still rising! Maurice Elphick Current Biology Queen Mary University of London

A single peptide helps starfish get rid of a limb when attacked arstechnica.com/science/2024/0…

Starfish Defense: The Mechanism Behind the Voluntary Loss of an Arm ruetir.com/2024/09/13/sta…

🚨Mark your calendars! We are launching the London EvoDevo club, a space to learn great new science, meet new colleagues and have fun! First meeting on Nov the 8th at Queen Mary University of London Register now! shorturl.at/34BOj Margarida Cardoso Moreira Alex de Mendoza Ferdinand Marlétaz

Starfish: the incredible secret of their self-amputation techno-science.net/en/news/starfi…

Ein einzelnes Peptid hilft Seesternen, bei einem Angriff ein Körperteil abzuwerfen germanic.news/ein-einzelnes-…

Obesity-drug pioneers win prestigious Lasker Award for medical science nature.com/articles/d4158…