Watch footage from the site of this year's #SICB2026
Carl Gans awardee
& lecturer, @armanafzadeh.bsky.social

www.manafzadeh.com/research
to learn how joints work & where they come from #evolutionarily as well as where joints come from developmentally.

#biomechanics #science #biology

We uncover two #Evolutionarily and #Ecologically distinct lineages of #LesserKestrel (Western and Eastern)

Differences in #ClimaticNiche #HabitatUse #MigratoryPathways

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‘If it’s alive, it sleeps.’ Brainless creatures shed light on why we slumber Sleep’s benefits may extend far beyond the brain, with role for muscles, immune system, and gut

Perhaps once an #AI #learns to sleep…it will #awaken? Is sleep an epigenetic mode?
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The simplest of slumbers. #Evidence from #evolutionarily #ancient #creatures is revealing that #sleep is not just for the #brain. 28 Oct 2021. Elizabeth Pennisi www.science.org/content/arti...

Enrichment of evolutionary young fixed TE copies near multi-ethnic TE-GWAS hits

Juan next hypothesized that SNVs 🧬 may reside in #TE copies that could provide substrates for de novo #transposition or #homology-dependent structural remodeling (think #NAHR). Consistently, he observed an enrichment of #evolutionarily young #LINE1 copies and intermediate-aged #Alu copies. 6/8