Sally Lowell<p>"I stepped out onto the headway..."</p><p>A nice summary of an interesting paper from the Hiiragi group: a self-guided "breadcrumb trail" mechanism helps build the early mammalian embryo. </p><p>The authors credit their analogy to The Brothers Grimm, but I credit it to Slint</p><p><a href="https://biologists.social/tags/PaperThemeTune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaperThemeTune</span></a> <a href="https://slint.bandcamp.com/track/breadcrumb-trail-remastered" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slint.bandcamp.com/track/bread</span><span class="invisible">crumb-trail-remastered</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.hubrecht.eu/breadcrumb-trails-embryos/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">hubrecht.eu/breadcrumb-trails-</span><span class="invisible">embryos/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://biologists.social/tags/DevBio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DevBio</span></a></p>