The Mysterious Dance of the Cricket Embryos - The New York Times

A team of biologists and mathematicians studied hours of video to learn how insects take shape in the egg. The secret is geometry.

Typically, biological material is translucent and difficult to see even with the most souped-up microscope. But Taro Nakamura, then a postdoc in Dr. Extavours lab, now a developmental biologist at th… [+1454 chars]

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