Did you know our bodies are basically just a bunch of tubes? That's how today's guest sees it anyways.  It may seem like a strange idea, but our brains, hearts, and airways are basically all just fancy tubes made up of lots of our cells. Saoirse researches the fly trachea as a model organism for how these tubes develop.

Suggested Reading:

Short video by Saoirse on her research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU-bMomr9jE&feature=youtu.be
Cancer Research UK describing the etiology of cancer: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/how-cancer-starts
Academic article about the fly trachea as a model organism: http://dev.biologists.org/content/127/15/3271.long
Academic article about size control: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0000086

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Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro
Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing

(Cell) Size Matters

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