Now that’s creative rapping and accompanied with some really well written lyrics . These people did some awesome work and as PZ Myers suggest ,deserves a Grammy. Most of the vital aspects of dev bio like asymmetric embryo,transcription factors,regulation,hox ,homeotic mutants, evo devo and many more are covered in an interesting way. enjoy!!!

This is just awesome !!!! There can hardly be any better example of Watching an animal getting to life. Bruno Vellutini created an video depicting the life cycle of the sea biscuit Clypeaster subdepressus, which was a part of his masters thesis. Its really a beautiful done video displaying all the stages of sea biscuits life cycle ,beginning from the induction of gametes and following the whole embryonic development under the microscope. Embryos later gets into pluteis larvae form with two arms (its the stage which i particularly liked a …

Year 2009 holds a special place in the field of Evolution as it celebrates 200 years of Charles Darwin’s Birth(12 February 2009) and 150 years of Publication of one of the greatest books “Origin of species”(24 November 2009).To celebrate these events and to create more awareness among the general public by providing evidence for evolution by natural selection,the editors of Nature(Henry Gee, Rory Howlett and Philip Campbell) came out with a compilation of some great examples of evolution.These enlightening examples were part of Nature’s issue during the last decade,which displays …

Technology of DNA sequencing is improving with every passing day. Modern sequencing equipment uses the principles of the Sanger dideoxynucleotide technique ,which appears to have reached its limit for technological improvements.Many companies like Applied Biosystems are offering faster and cheaper sequence information in far greater volumes than ever before.Thanks to these innovations in DNA sequencing ,which enabled research that would be impractical and too expensive using the Sanger technology.

Animals or metazoans are found in various forms and considered to be one of finest creation of nature.Many animals played a significant role in understanding life by serving as model organisms.Difficult to find someone who hates these magnificent creatures of our planet and watching them in wild is something cannot be expressed in words.But believe me watching the videos on TV or computer is equally exciting.Here i picked some of favorite animal videos: Starting with my all time favorite the Battle of Kruger

Drosophila embryo development:

Time Lapse Of The Embryonic Development Of Drosophila Melanogast – video powered by Metacafe

The dream of watching a single cell getting transformed into embryo is finally possible ,thanks to the latest technique, called Digital Scanned Laser Light-Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy.Previously researchers were successful in capturing first few hours of development in invertebrates like Nematodes but performing the same feat in vertebrates was always a difficult task. Joachim Wittbrod tand others from EMBL ,Germany has made it possible to visualize a Zebra fish embryo grow from a single cell to 20,000 cells with a beating heart.