Digging Deep in Biology: "Things Get Even More Complicated When You Look Closer"

"As is often the case in biology," the scientist and artist David Goodsell has observed, "things get even more complicated when you look closer." And that is the truth.

Yesterday started out as an ordinary Tuesday. Then I set out to read a recent paper published in the journal Cell, "Nuclear Localization of Mitochondrial TCA Cycle Enzymes as a Critical Step in Mammalian Zygotic Genome Activation," by R Nagaraj et al. It reported something rather odd that caught my eye. Very early embryos (at...