Hacker News with Generative AI: Developmental Biology

Pink Skies (ist.ac.at)
Organoids have revolutionized science and medicine, providing platforms for disease modeling, drug testing, and understanding developmental processes. While not exact replicas of human organs, they offer significant insights. The Siegert group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) presents a new organoid model that reveals details of the developing nervous system’s response to viral infections, such as Rubella. This model could influence pharmaceutical testing, particularly benefiting drug safety for pregnant women.
SHH – Sonic Hedgehog Protein (wikipedia.org)
Sonic hedgehog protein (SHH) is a major signaling molecule of embryonic development in humans and other animals, encoded by the SHH gene.
Scientists program stem cells to mimic first days of embryonic development (news.ucsc.edu)
Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins (medicalxpress.com)