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Centriolar satellites facilitate efficient trafficking of proteins to and from centrioles and are required for early steps of cilia formation and timely ciliogenesis in vivo, where mice lacking satellites display perinatal lethality, hydrocephalus, oligospermia, and cerebellar hypoplasia.

An information theoretic and systems biology approach shows that cellular compartmentalisation and receptor promiscuity can facilitate the accurate and robust inference of position from noisy morphogen profiles, verified by experiments in Drosophila wing imaginal disc.

The mushroom body neuropils of the larval brain have regions that share neurons and functions with the adult and larval-specific regions built with 'doomed' neurons or cells that trans-differentiate for temporary larval function before assuming their adult phenotypes at metamorphosis.

Study of human, knockout mice, and in-vitro models revealed CEP78 absence is the genetical cause of cone-rod dystrophy and male infertility with multiple morphological abnormalities of sperm flagella, CEP78 interacted with IFT20 and TTC21A to modulate cilliogenesis and centriole length.

The way neurons in the brain rewire in larvae as they turn to adult fruit flies sheds light on how complete metamorphosis was ‘invented’ over the course of evolution.

Discoidin domain receptor 2 controls craniofacial morphology by acting in skeletal progenitor cells and chondrocytes to control collagen matrix organization, chondrocyte polarity, and growth.

The circadian clock acts with light response pathways to tightly synchronize daily rhythms in maturation of hundreds of florets in sunflower, promoting timely visits by pollinators and creating ring-like patterns on developing heads.

The circadian clock may help to control the development patterns which allow the florets on a sunflower head to go through their final stages of maturation at precisely the right time.

The loss of miRNA-27a stimulates osteoclast-mediated bone resorption but does not affect osteoblast-mediated bone formation, leading to the development of osteoporosis in mice.

Oligodendrocyte-lineage cells secrete L-type prostaglandin synthase in an autocrine loop to promote oligodendrocyte development and myelination.